SC public official bonds.
Flat 3%. Enter your amount.
South Carolina requires many public officers to file a faithful-performance bond before taking office, conditioned on honestly performing the duties of the office. The amount is set by the statute, charter, or ordinance for your office — we issue it at a flat 3% with a soft credit pull that never affects price.
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Most public official bonds clear quickly — enter your amount, consent to a soft pull, and file before you are sworn in. Here is the whole thing:
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Your details, the office, and the penal sum the law requires. The only extra step is a one-time consent to a soft credit pull.
Reviewed & approved
Most clear quickly; if underwriting needs anything, you hear from an underwriter within 48 hours. The credit check is a soft pull that never affects your score.
File before you take office
Receive the executed bond ready to file with the clerk, secretary of state, or other officer who records it. Wet-ink originals mailed whenever the office insists.
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Penal sum × 3% = your premium, one-time, $275 minimum. Enter the amount the law for your office sets and the premium updates — a soft pull affects approval, never price.
What it is and who needs it.
What the public official bond actually guarantees
South Carolina conditions many public offices on a bond. Under Title 8, Chapter 3, an officer files a bond before entering on the duties of the office, and the standard form recites a penal sum 'in the amount required by law' — a faithful-performance and honesty guarantee running to the State and to anyone the officer's conduct could harm.
It is a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the State of South Carolina or your jurisdiction (the obligee), with the public protected. If an officer breaches the duties of the office or mishandles public funds, a claim can be made against the bond.
There is no single amount — the figure is set by the specific statute, charter, or ordinance for your office (a treasurer, a clerk, a notary, a magistrate, and a municipal officer can all carry different penal sums). Enter the amount your appointment names, and we issue it at a flat 3%. It is not insurance for you; if the surety pays, you repay the surety.
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Five minutes. The whole thing.
These are the actual underwriting fields, including a one-time consent to a soft credit pull. Submit once and most bonds clear quickly.
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Get bonded before you are sworn in.
Five-minute application, flat 3%, $275 minimum, soft pull only. Enter your required amount and file the same day.