(a) A traffic violator school owner shall meet all of the following criteria before a license may be issued for the traffic violator school: (1) Maintain an established place of business in this state that is open to the public. An office or place of business of a traffic violator school, including any traffic violator school branch or classroom location, shall not be situated within 500 feet of any court of law or within 50 feet of another licensed traffic violator school. The office or place of business shall be a separate and enclosed space consisting of a minimum of 100 square feet and shall have a lockable entry door. (2) Be open to the public and maintain regular business hours Monday to Friday, inclusive, excluding state and federal holidays. The business hours shall be posted at the established place of business and on any internet website used or maintained by the traffic violator school. (3) Have an operator or employee in each office or place of business during regular business hours. (4) Have a name that does not include a cost, price, or amount of the traffic violator school course, unless that name accurately reflects the cost of the course. (5) Conform to standards established by regulation of the department. In adopting the standards, the department shall consider those practices and instructional programs that may reasonably foster the knowledge, skills, and judgment necessary for compliance with traffic laws. The department shall establish standards for each instructional modality, which may include requirements specific to each modality. The standards may include, but are not limited to, classroom facilities, school personnel, equipment, curriculum, procedures for the testing and evaluation of students, recordkeeping, and business practices. (6) Procure and file with the department a bond of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) executed by an admitted surety and conditioned upon the applicant not practicing fraud or making a fraudulent representation that will cause a monetary loss to a person taking instruction from the applicant or to the state or any local authority. (7) Have the proper equipment necessary for giving instruction to traffic violators. (8) Have a lesson plan approved by the department, and provide not less than the minimum instructional time specified in the approved plan. The approved plan shall include a postlesson knowledge test. The lesson plan for each instructional modality shall require separate approval by the department. (9) (A) Execute and file with the department an instrument designating the director as agent of the applicant for service of process, as provided in this paragraph, in any action commenced against the applicant arising out of a claim for damages suffered by a person due to the applicantâs violation of a provision of this code committed in relation to the specifications of the applicantâs traffic violator school or a condition of the bond required by paragraph (6). (B) The applicant shall stipulate in the instrument that a process directed to the applicant, when personal service cannot be made in this state after due diligence, may be served instead upon the director or, in the directorâs absence from the departmentâs principal offices, upon an employee in charge of the office of the director, and that this substituted service is of the same effect as personal service on the applicant. The instrument shall further stipulate that the agency created by the designation shall continue during the period covered by the license issued pursuant to this section and so long thereafter as the applicant may be made to answer in damages for a violation of this code for which the surety may be made liable or a condition of the bond. (C) The instrument designating the director as agent for service of process shall be acknowledged by the applicant before a notary public. (D) If the director or an employee of the department, in lieu of the director, is served with a summons an
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