SUBCHAPTER B PROFESSIONAL BONDSMEN Sec. 5741. Definitions. 5742. Registration and licensure required. 5743. Issuance of license. 5744. Office. 5745. Refusal to grant or renew license. 5746. Suspension or revocation of license. 5747. Statements by fidelity or surety companies. 5748. Maximum premiums. 5749. Prohibitions and penalties. § 5741. Definitions. The following words and phrases when used in this subchapter shall have, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the meanings given to them in this section: "Office of the clerk." The office of the clerk of the court of common pleas of each judicial district in which a professional bondsman engages in the business of a professional bondsman. "Professional bondsman." Any person, other than a fidelity or surety company or any of its officers, agents, attorneys, or employees, authorized to execute bail bonds or to solicit business on its behalf, who: (1) engages in the business of giving bail, giving or soliciting undertakings, or giving or soliciting indemnity or counterindemnity to sureties on undertakings; or (2) within a period of 30 days has become a surety, or has indemnified a surety, for the release on bail of a person, with or without a fee or compensation, or promise thereof, in three or more matters not arising out of the same transaction.

SUBCHAPTER B PROFESSIONAL BONDSMEN Sec. 5741. Definitions. 5742. Registration and licensure required. 5743. Issuance of license. 5744. Office. 5745. Refusal to grant or renew license. 5746. Suspension or revocation of license. 5747. Statements by fidelity or surety companies. 5748. Maximum premiums. 5749. Prohibitions and penalties. § 5741. Definitions. The following words and phrases when used in this subchapter shall have, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the meanings given to them in this section: "Office of the clerk." The office of the clerk of the court of common pleas of each judicial district in which a professional bondsman engages in the business of a professional bondsman. "Professional bondsman." Any person, other than a fidelity or surety company or any of its officers, agents, attorneys, or employees, authorized to execute bail bonds or to solicit business on its behalf, who: (1) engages in the business of giving bail, giving or soliciting undertakings, or giving or soliciting indemnity or counterindemnity to sureties on undertakings; or (2) within a period of 30 days has become a surety, or has indemnified a surety, for the release on bail of a person, with or without a fee or compensation, or promise thereof, in three or more matters not arising out of the same transaction.