A securities salesman — the role the current statute calls an agent — registers in Georgia through the Commissioner of Securities at the Secretary of State’s office, and the Securities Division can condition that registration on a $2,500 surety bond running to the State of Georgia. Ours is $100 flat, the price you see is the checkout price, and it issues the moment you pay. The application collects no credit information.
















An agent-level bond is about the smallest filing in surety. Here is the entire process:
Your details plus the name and address of the employer you sell for, an effective date, and a term. That is the whole application — no financial statements and no credit section.
This bond is checkout-priced at $100 flat, so it issues the moment you pay — your executed bond and power of attorney generate on the spot.
Your bond arrives by email, ready to go to the Commissioner of Securities with your registration — in practice usually through the employing firm’s compliance desk. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
“Salesman” is the legacy label carried on the bond form. Under the Georgia Uniform Securities Act of 2008 (O.C.G.A. Chapter 10-5, effective 1 July 2009, replacing the Georgia Securities Act of 1973) the same role is an agent: an individual who represents a broker-dealer or an issuer in effecting or attempting to effect purchases or sales of securities. Registration is administered by the Commissioner of Securities — the Secretary of State — through the Securities Division, and it is the Division, not the applicant, that decides when a bond is a condition of registration.
That is why the application asks for the name and address of your employer. An agent registers in connection with a specific broker-dealer or issuer, so the bond identifies the firm you sell for; changing employers is a registration event, and the bond has to match. The obligation itself is the same shape as every bond in this Securities Division family: the principal and a corporate surety are bound unto the State of Georgia, for the use and benefit of any interested person damaged by a breach, conditioned on faithful compliance with the securities act and with the rules, regulations, and orders of the Commissioner. Aggregate liability never exceeds the penal sum, however many claimants appear. It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays, you repay the surety.
Georgia securities registration runs on a calendar year. Broker-dealer and agent registrations expire at midnight on 31 December, renewals go in between 1 October and 31 December, and a renewal is effective only once the Commissioner has confirmation that fees are paid and any required bond is on file. That makes a lapsed bond a live problem rather than a paperwork one: between expiry and effective renewal there is no authority to transact. A one-year term lines up with the calendar cycle; two- and three-year terms exist so the filing cannot quietly fall out from under a renewal.
These are the actual issuing fields — your details, the name and address of the employer you sell for, an effective date, and a term.
Start the application →$100 flat, issued the moment you pay, no credit section in the application. Free until issued.