Kansas vehicle title service agent bonds.
$250 flat.
Kansas will not license a vehicle title service agent until a $25,000 surety bond is on file with the director of vehicles — the requirement is set by K.S.A. 8-2603, and the amount is the same for every agent in the state. Ours is $250 flat, and the price you see is the checkout price. No credit check, and most applications approve instantly.
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How much does a Kansas vehicle title service agent bond cost?
$250 at the $25,000 amount, the same for every applicant.
Three steps. One sitting.
Dealer Licensing wants the bond in the packet, not a promise of one. Here is the entire process:
Apply online
Business details, the term you want, and an effective date. That is the application — the bond amount is already set at $25,000, so there is nothing to size and nothing to negotiate.
Pay & e-sign
License bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase.
File with the Division of Vehicles
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to go into your Dealer Licensing packet with the application and the annual fee. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the title service agent bond actually guarantees
A vehicle title service agent is defined by K.S.A. 8-2601 as a person who, for a fee, acts as someone else’s agent in applying for or obtaining a certificate of title, a registration or license plate, or a registration renewal — and, for a licensed Kansas dealer, in obtaining temporary registrations, title assignment addendums, or sales tax receipt books. Licensed vehicle dealers are excluded, and so is anyone dealing exclusively in commercial vehicles. If you run title and tag work for dealers or the public and you are not the dealer yourself, this is your license.
The bond exists because the job puts other people’s money and other people’s ownership documents in your hands. It runs to the State of Kansas for the benefit of any aggrieved retail or wholesale buyer or seller of a vehicle, and it indemnifies them for loss caused by acts that would be grounds to suspend or revoke your license — a title that never gets perfected, fees collected and not remitted, paperwork filed wrong. A buyer who is harmed can recover against the bond up to $25,000.
It is not insurance for you. If the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. Keep the bond in force for the whole life of the license: the surety can cancel only on 30 days’ notice to the director, but a license without a bond behind it is revoked, so we track your expiry and notify you 60 and 30 days out. Because every Kansas license in this family expires on December 31, a 2 or 3-year bond term is usually the cheaper way to stay continuous.
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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 premium covers a one-year term from the effective date you choose; a longer term is the same price per year, chosen 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
File with the Division of Vehicles. Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to go into your Dealer Licensing packet with the application and the annual fee. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What sets the price
The premium is fixed at $250 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. No credit check.
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$250 flat, no credit check, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.