§ 10-23-102. Registration Required – Qualifications – Enforcement

1. No person qualifies to be a professional cash-bail agent unless the person registers with the division. However, any bail bonding agent who was licensed by the division as of January 1, 1992, to write bail bonds as a cash-bonding agent may continue to be registered upon compliance with the other requirements of this article.
2. No firm, partnership, association, or corporation, as such, shall be registered. No person engaged as a law enforcement or judicial officer shall be registered as a cash-bonding agent or professional cash-bail agent.
3. 1. All registrations expire in accordance with a schedule established by the commissioner, and the registrant shall renew or reinstate the registration in accordance with the rules of the commissioner. If the commissioner schedules a registration to expire for longer or shorter than a year, the commissioner shall proportionally adjust the renewal fee for the registration. The registrant must satisfy all registration and renewal requirements to qualify to register.
   2. The commissioner shall give a registrant a sixty-day grace period to renew the registration without discipline or sanctions. The commissioner may establish renewal fees and delinquency fees for reinstatement by rule. If a person fails to renew a registration when required by the schedule established by the commissioner, the registration expires.
4. The division shall transmit all fees collected under this article to the state treasurer, who shall credit the fees to the division of insurance cash fund created in section 10-1-103.
5. The division shall prepare and deliver to each registrant a pocket card showing the name, address, and classification of the registrant. The pocket card must clearly state that the person is authorized to practice as a cash-bonding agent or professional cash-bail agent.
6. Repealed.

Source: L. 2012: Entire article added with relocations, (HB 12-1266), ch. 280, p. 1510, § 41, effective July 1.

Editor’s note:

1. This section is similar to former § 12-7-102 as it existed prior to 2012.
2. Subsection (6)(d) provided for the repeal of subsection (6), effective July 1, 2015. (See L. 2012, p. 1510 .)