Florida Administrative Code › 69 - DEPARTMENT OF FINANCIAL SERVICES › 69B - Division of Insurance Agent and Agency Services › Chapter 69B-221 - BAIL, BONDS, AND BAIL BOND AGENTS › Section 69B-221.051 - Actively Engaged in Business; Place Suitably Designated; Accessible to Public

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
Every bail bond agent must be actively engaged in the bail
				  bond business; in a building suitably designated as a bail bond agency, which
				  must be maintained open and accessible to the public to render service during
				  reasonable business hours.
(1) Each
				bail bond agency, and each branch office, shall be in the active full-time
				charge of a licensed and appointed primary bail bond agent as required by
				section  648.387, F.S., and shall be
				designated on form DFS-H2-1541, (Rev. 7/13)
http://www.flrules.org/Gateway/reference.asp?No=Ref-03250
"Filing of Bail Bond Agency Business Name and Designation/Deletion of Primary
				Bail Bond Agent," which is adopted and incorporated herein by reference. This
				form is available from the Division of Agents and Agency Services, Department
				of Financial Services at
http:/www.myfloridacfo.com/Division/Agents
.
(2) Each bail bond agency and each branch
				office shall have an entrance easily accessible to the public and used by the
				bail bond agent in the regular course of their business dealings with the
				public. As used in this rule, "accessible to the public means the entrance
				shall be suitably designated by a sign or other display, readable from a
				reasonable distance, which provides at a minimum the agency name. Additionally,
				if a bail bond agency is located in a building which maintains a uniform office
				directory on its premises, the directory shall provide at a minimum the current
				name of that bail bond agency.
(3)
				As used in this rule, the term "reasonable business hours" means at least eight
				hours daily between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., Monday through
				Friday, except for legal holidays.
(4)
(a) A
				temporary bail bond agent must be employed full-time and shall be physically
				accompanied by the supervising bail bond agent or bail bond agent from the same
				agency as required by sections
				 648.25(8)  and
				 648.355(8),
				F.S. As used in this rule, the term "full-time" means that the temporary bail
				bond agent must work at least 1,540 hours during 12 months of employment as a
				temporary bail bond agent. This will result in an average of slightly less than
				30 hours per week. Each employer of a temporary bail bond agent must provide
				the temporary bail bond agent the opportunity to work at least 30 hours a week
				during the period of employment and may allow the temporary bail bond agent to
				work more than 30 hours per week.
(b) A temporary bail bond agent shall be
				employed and receive a salary or wages as required by law.
(c) The supervising bail bond agent shall
				file monthly a certified report under oath on form DFS-H2-1543, (Rev. 7/13),
http://www.flrules.org/Gateway/reference.asp?No=Ref-03251
"Temporary Bail Bond Agent Employment Report", which is adopted and
				incorporated herein by reference. This form is available from the Division of
				Agents and Agency Services, Department of Financial Services at
http:/www.myfloridacfo.com/Division/Agents
.
(d) The supervising bail bond agent and the
				temporary bail bond agent must certify the hours reported are the actual hours
				worked by the temporary bail bond agent.
(e) Form DFS-H2-1543, "Temporary Bail Bond
				Agent Employment Report," must be received by the Department no later than the
				last day of the month following the month being reported on the
				form.