North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 11 - INSURANCE › Chapter 13 - AGENT SERVICES DIVISION - NON-INSURANCE ENTITIES › Section .0500 - BAIL BONDSMEN AND RUNNERS › Section 13 .0520 - PRELICENSING EDUCATION: DEFINITIONS FOR BAIL BOND PRELICENSING AND CONTINUING EDUCATION

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
As used in this Section, unless the context indicates
				  otherwise:
(1) "Agent Services
				Division" or "Division" means the Agent Services Division of the North Carolina
				Department of Insurance, the Division responsible for the licensing, education
				and regulation of professional bail bondsmen, surety bail bondsmen, and bail
				bond runners.
(2) "Bail bond
				continuing education" means instruction in subjects related to the duties and
				responsibilities of a runner or a bail bondsman.
(3) "Bail bond continuing education credit or
				"BCEC" means a value assigned to a course by the Commissioner after review and
				approval of course information. This terms means the same as "hours of
				continuing education" as used in
				G.S.
				58-71-71(b).
(4) "Certificate Of Course Completion" means
				a document from the approved bail bond pre-licensing or continuing educational
				provider certifying that the applicant has met the requirements of
				pre-licensing or continuing education.
(5) "Compliance year" means the annual
				license period running from July 1 to June 30 in which the licensee is required
				to complete three hours of BCEC pursuant to
				G.S.
				58-71-71(b).
(6) "Course" means a continuing education
				course directly related to bail bond principles and practices.
(7) "Instructor" means an individual who
				meets the qualifications required by
				11 NCAC
				13 .0542; teaches, lectures, leads, or
				otherwise instructs a course; and is responsible for the preparation and
				presentation of lesson plans to that school's students.
(8) "Instructional hour" means a 50 minute
				hour in the classroom.
(9)
				"Licensee" means a licensed professional bail bondsman, surety bail bondsman or
				runner.
(10) "Outline" means the
				content outline prepared and published by the Department that summarizes the
				specific bail bond subject areas on which the professional bail bondsman,
				surety bail bondsman or runner license examination is based.
(11) "Professional Testing Service" or
				"Service" means the organization specializing in the development and
				administration of licensing examinations on a contract basis for the
				Department.
(12) "Provider" means
				an entity that provides prelicensing or continuing education approved by the
				Department.
(13) "State Licensing
				Examination" or "Examination" means a collection of questions designed to test
				the professional bail bondsman, surety bail bondsman, or runner license
				knowledge of the basic concepts, principles and laws relevant to the bail bond
				profession to determine his competence to be licensed in North
				Carolina.
Authority
				  G.S.
				  58-2-40;
				  58-71-5(a);
				  58-71-70;
				  58-71-71;
Eff. October
				  1, 2010;
Pursuant to
				  G.S.
				  150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without
				  substantive public interest Eff. June 25,
				  2016.