Indiana notary bond + $25,000 E&O.
$210 flat.
Indiana requires every notary to obtain a $25,000 assurance — a surety bond — before the Secretary of State grants an 8-year commission. This version adds $25,000 of errors-and-omissions coverage, our largest E&O tier, to protect you from your own honest mistakes. The bond issues the moment you pay. No credit check.
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An Indiana notary bond is one of the simplest filings in surety. Here’s the entire process:
Apply online
Request the bond in the name of the individual applying to be a notary, give your address and contact details, and pick an effective date. That is the application. No credit check, and no SSN.
Pay & e-sign
The bond issues the moment you pay. Your $25,000 E&O coverage is bundled with it, so there is no second application.
Submit it to the Secretary of State
Your e-signed bond arrives by email, ready to file. Indiana wants an electronic copy of the assurance submitted to the Secretary of State within 30 days of its effective date, alongside your commission application.
What it is and who needs it.
Bond protects the public — E&O protects you
Indiana calls the notary bond an assurance. IC 33-42-12-1(c)(4) says an applicant for a commission, or for a subsequent commission, shall “obtain an assurance in the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000).” IC 33-42-0.5-4 defines an assurance as a surety bond or the functional equivalent of a surety bond that covers a notary’s acts or omissions during the commission. This product is a surety bond, the form the definition names first.
The assurance is a public-protection guarantee. It is a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety, and the State of Indiana, with the people who rely on your notarizations as the protected parties. If a notary’s act or omission harms someone, they can recover against the $25,000 — and if the surety pays, you repay the surety. Indiana also requires the surety to tell the Secretary of State about any payment within 30 days (IC 33-42-12-1(e)).
The $25,000 of errors-and-omissions coverage is the part that protects you. E&O is insurance for the notary’s honest, unintentional mistakes — a missed signature, a wrong date, a certificate that doesn’t match the act — and it does not ask you to repay the insurer. IC 33-42-12-1 requires the bond only; E&O is optional. Our other Indiana notary pages sell the same $25,000 bond with no E&O, $10,000 or $15,000; this one carries the largest E&O limit, sized to match the bond itself.
Timing matters. Under IC 33-42-12-1(d) a notary may act only during a period covered by a valid assurance on file with the Secretary of State, and the electronic copy is due within 30 days of the assurance’s effective date. The commission term is eight years (IC 33-42-12-1(f)), and the carrier’s form runs this bond eight years from the effective date you pick — so set it to start when your commission does.
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Claims, renewal, filing, and what sets the price.
If a claim is made
A claim comes from the party the bond protects, the obligee named on the form, when the duty the bond guarantees is not met.
The surety investigates and pays a valid claim, up to the $25,000 bond amount. You then repay the surety: a surety bond is a guarantee of your performance, not insurance for you.
Renewal and term
The carrier issues this bond for a single 8-year term; the term cannot be changed at checkout.
Renew before the expiry date to keep the bond in force: the license, permit or contract it backs expects continuous coverage.
How to file it
Submit it to the Secretary of State. Your e-signed bond arrives by email, ready to file. Indiana wants an electronic copy of the assurance submitted to the Secretary of State within 30 days of its effective date, alongside your commission application.
What sets the price
The premium is fixed at $210 at the $25,000 amount for every applicant: the carrier’s rate book prices this bond by the form, not by your credit or your business profile.
No credit check.
One application, issued instantly.
These are the actual issuing fields — request the bond in the name of the individual applying to be a notary. No credit check, no SSN; the $25,000 E&O is bundled with the bond.
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Other Indiana notary bonds.
Not sure this is the one your license calls for? These are the other notary bonds we write in Indiana. Each has its own statute and bond amount.
Other Indiana bonds.
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Bond and $25,000 E&O, done today.
One flat price, the largest E&O tier, no credit check. Free until issued.