KY lottery retailer bonds.
Flat 3%. Enter your amount.
The Kentucky Lottery Corporation can require a retailer to post a bond or other security as a condition of holding a retailer license, in an amount based on your actual or potential lottery sales, under KRS Chapter 154A and 202 KAR 3:030. Whatever amount the Corporation names, we issue it at a flat 3% with no credit check.
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No underwriting queue for the standard lottery retailer bond — enter your amount, pay, and deliver to the Corporation. Here is the whole thing:
Apply online
Your business details, the bond amount the Corporation set, and the effective date — that is the entire application.
Issued on the spot
No credit check and no waiting — the executed bond is generated as soon as you pay. Larger amounts may get a quick review.
Deliver to the Lottery Corporation
Submit the executed bond to the Kentucky Lottery Corporation with your retailer license. Wet-ink originals mailed on request.
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Bond amount × 3% = your premium, one-time, $275 minimum. Enter the figure the Corporation set and the premium updates.
What it is and who needs it.
What the lottery bond actually covers
Kentucky runs its lottery through the Kentucky Lottery Corporation under KRS Chapter 154A. Retailers sell tickets and collect the proceeds, which they owe back to the Corporation — so the Corporation wants assurance that a retailer will remit what it collects.
Under 202 KAR 3:030, the Corporation may license or keep a retailer on the condition that it provides bonds, letters of credit, personal guaranty agreements, or other security it deems satisfactory, in an amount based on actual or potential sales. A surety bond is one accepted form.
The bond guarantees the retailer will remit ticket proceeds and follow the lottery rules — if you fail to and the Corporation is owed, it can recover against the bond, and if the surety pays, you repay the surety. Because the amount tracks your sales, you enter the figure the Corporation named and we issue at a flat 3%.
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Five minutes, issued on the spot.
Submit the application with the bond amount the Corporation set — the executed bond is generated instantly, ready to deliver.
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Lottery retailer bond, issued today.
Five-minute application, flat 3%, $275 minimum. Enter the amount the Corporation set and deliver it the same day.