ND notary bonds, bond only.
$50 flat. Four years.
North Dakota will not commission a notary until a $7,500 assurance — in practice a surety bond on form SFN 19355 — is on file with the Secretary of State. This is the plain bond, without errors & omissions coverage: $50 flat for the entire four-year commission, and the price you see is the checkout price.
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Three steps. One sitting.
The notary assurance is about the simplest thing in surety — one fixed amount, one fixed price, one four-year term. Here is the entire process:
Apply online
Apply in the name of the individual being appointed — not the employer, even when the bank or title company is paying. Name, address, contact details and an effective date, and that is the application.
Pay & e-sign
Notary bonds are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
File with the Secretary of State
Your executed SFN 19355 arrives by email with the surety signature and the attorney-in-fact authority already on it. Sign it in front of another notary, then submit it through FirstStop with your oath of office and the $36 application fee. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the notary assurance actually guarantees
North Dakota does not call this a bond in the statute — N.D.C.C. 44-06.1-20(4) calls it an assurance, and it lets you satisfy it with a surety bond or its functional equivalent in the amount of seven thousand five hundred dollars. A surety bond is what essentially everyone files, because it costs a one-time premium instead of tying up $7,500. The Secretary of State approves the assurance, and it has to be written by a surety licensed or authorized to do business in North Dakota.
On the state's own form, SFN 19355, you bind yourself unto the people of the state of North Dakota in that penal sum, and the surety binds itself to the same. The condition is simple: if you perform the duties of a notary public according to the law, the obligation is void; if you do not, it stays in force. When a notary violates North Dakota notary law and someone is harmed, the surety is liable up to $7,500 — and if the surety pays, you repay the surety. That is the line that surprises first-time notaries: the assurance protects the public, not you.
It also gates your authority. The statute says a notary public may perform notarial acts in this state only during the period that a valid assurance is on file with the Secretary of State, and the surety has to give the Secretary thirty days' notice before cancelling — which is the state's way of making sure a lapse is visible before it happens. The bond runs with the commission, so a four-year term is the normal purchase, and we track yours and notify you before it expires.
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One application, issued instantly.
These are the actual issuing fields. The application asks for a Social Security number to verify identity; if any check runs, it is a soft pull that will not affect your score.
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$50 flat for the full four-year commission, soft pull only, and the bond usually issues in the same sitting. Free until issued.