Maine retains separate Property and Casualty authorities. The ordinary both-authority pathway uses combined exam 12-ME-03; standalone exams remain alternatives.
Eligibility
- Minimum age
- 18
- Residency requirement / status
- Ordinary first-time resident individual
Prelicensing education
- Prelicensing education required
- No
- Required education hours
- 0
- Education requirement explanation
- No producer prelicensing mandate appears in Maine’s current first-time sequence; this is a qualified current-process finding.
Background
- Fingerprints required
- No
- Fingerprint / background instructions
- No fingerprint step appears in Maine’s ordinary first-time producer sequence; this is not a universal statutory exemption.
Application
- Application required
- Yes
- Application fee
- $25 resident producer total; NIPR transaction charge additional if applicable.
- Application channel / system
- NIPR or Maine Bureau of Insurance
- Official application reference
- https://www.maine.gov/pfr/insurance/frequently-asked-questions/producers
Renewal & maintenance
- CE required
- Yes
- CE hours
- 24
- Ethics hours
- 3
Portability
- Nonresident licensing available
- Yes
Source governance
- Primary authoritative source
- https://www.maine.gov/pfr/insurance/frequently-asked-questions/producers
- Last verified date
- 2026-08-26
- Verification status
- Verified
- Review / recheck date
- 2026-09-26
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