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Oklahoma notary bond + E&O.
$100 flat.
Every Oklahoma notary files a $10,000 surety bond with the Secretary of State under 49 O.S. § 2 — raised from $1,000 on January 1, 2026. Ours bundles it with $10,000 of errors-and-omissions coverage for you, at $100 flat for the full four-year term. The bond issues the moment you pay — no credit review of any kind, not even a soft pull.
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Three steps to a filed bond.
Your commission comes from the Secretary of State; the bond is what lets you use it. Here's the whole process:
Apply online
Type $10,000 in the Bond amount field, then add your county and, if you have it, your commission number. Request the bond in your own name, as the person being commissioned. No financials, no credit section.
Pay & e-sign
The bond issues the moment you pay, with the $10,000 E&O policy bundled in. One premium covers the whole four-year term.
File with the Secretary of State
File the bond with your oath of office, loyalty oath, official signature and seal impression no more than 60 days after your commission issues, and pay the $25 bond filing fee. You may not notarize until the office approves it.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond and the E&O each do
Oklahoma conditions every notary commission on a $10,000 bond to the State of Oklahoma, approved by the Secretary of State and conditioned on the faithful performance of the notary's duties (49 O.S. § 2). Senate Bill 1028 raised the amount from $1,000 to $10,000 effective January 1, 2026, and added a fingerprint-based national criminal history check for new and renewal applicants. You file the bond with your oath of office, loyalty oath, official signature and seal impression no more than 60 days after the commission issues, and you may not perform any notarial act until the office has approved it.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety, and the State of Oklahoma (the obligee). The bond protects the public — a person harmed by a notary's negligence or failure to perform the duties of the office can recover against it, up to $10,000 — and it is not insurance for you: if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. A suit against a notary or the sureties must be brought within three years after the cause of action accrues (49 O.S. § 10).
The bundled $10,000 errors-and-omissions (E&O) policy works the other way: it protects you, the notary, against claims arising from honest mistakes in your notarial acts, up to its limit, so a covered error is not paid out of your own pocket. Oklahoma law does not require E&O — the statute and the Secretary of State ask only for the bond — so it rides along here as protection for you, not as part of the filing. If you want the bond alone, we sell that version too.
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One application, issued instantly.
These are the actual issuing fields. Enter $10,000 as the bond amount — the figure 49 O.S. § 2 sets — and request the bond in your own name. No credit section, because this application doesn't collect credit information.
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Notary bond and E&O, issued today.
$100 flat for the $10,000 bond plus $10,000 of E&O, no credit review, one premium for the four-year term. Free until issued.