AR public official bonds.
Flat 3%. Enter your amount.
Arkansas requires many elected and appointed officials to file an official bond before being sworn in, under Ark. Code Ann. § 21-2-101 et seq. The required amount is set by the statute, ordinance, or order that governs your office — we issue it at a flat 3% with a soft credit pull only.
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Enter your amount, consent to a soft pull, and file with the office that requires the bond. Here is the whole thing:
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Your details, your office or position, the bond amount required, and the effective date — that is the entire application, plus a one-time soft-pull consent.
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Most of these clear quickly; if underwriting needs anything, you hear from an underwriter within 48 hours. The credit check is a soft pull that never affects your score.
File and be sworn in
County and district bonds file with the county recorder; state bonds file as the statute directs. Your executed bond arrives by email, ready to file. Wet-ink originals mailed on request.
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Bond amount × 3% = your premium, one-time, $275 minimum. Enter the figure your office requires and the premium updates.
What it is and who needs it.
What the public official bond actually covers
An Arkansas public official bond is a faithful-performance and honesty guarantee. It backs an official's duty to perform the office honestly and to account for public money that passes through their hands — if the official defaults, the public can recover against the bond.
Under Ark. Code Ann. § 21-2-107, the official bonds of state, county, and district officers required to furnish them must be executed by the official as principal and by a surety company authorized to do business in Arkansas. County officers' bonds are filed with the recorder of the county where they are elected or appointed.
The required amount comes from the law or order governing your specific office — a statute, a county or city ordinance, or an order of the governing body — so there is no single statewide figure. Under § 21-2-108, the bond generally runs with the term of office, up to roughly two years. Enter the amount you were given, and we issue at a flat 3% with a soft pull only.
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Five minutes. The whole thing.
These are the actual underwriting fields, including a one-time consent to a soft credit pull. Submit once and your bond is typically issued within 1–2 business days.
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Five-minute application, flat 3%, $275 minimum. Enter the amount your office requires and file the same day.