A licensed Alabama public weighmaster who weighs livestock and issues certificates of weight files a $1,000 bond with the Department of Agriculture & Industries. At a flat 3% that math is $30 — so it lands at our $275 minimum. The application is five minutes.
















Small license bonds are the simplest thing in surety. Here's the entire process:
Business details and an effective date. That's the application — no financials and no credit check section for this bond.
A $1,000 license bond like this issues right after purchase in most cases. At most, 1–2 business days.
Your executed bond arrives by email, ready to file with your public weighmaster registration. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
$1,000 bond × 3% = $30, which is under our $275 minimum — so it is $275. Multi-year terms hold the same floor.
Alabama regulates public weighmasters through the Department of Agriculture & Industries, Weights & Measures Division. A public weighmaster weighs commodities — here, livestock — and issues an official certificate of weight that buyers and sellers rely on for payment.
The bond is a fidelity-and-accuracy guarantee: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the State of Alabama (the obligee), with the people relying on your weight certificates as the protected parties. If a weighmaster issues false or fraudulent certificates and someone is harmed, the claim is paid against the bond.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. We track the renewal so your weighmaster registration never lapses over an expired bond.
These are the actual issuing fields — no credit check section, because this bond doesn't have one.
Start the application →If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
$275 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.