The correct answer is C — Treasurer. A Public Official or Public Employee Bond guarantees the faithful and honest performance of duties by a public official or employee, particularly where the position involves custody, control, collection, or disbursement of public funds.
Treasurers are among the classic positions requiring public official bonds because they exercise direct fiduciary responsibility over governmental money. Surety industry guidance specifically identifies treasurers, tax collectors, clerks, and similar public officials as common positions for which statutory public-official bonds are required. The Surety Association's classification material likewise specifically identifies treasurers and tax collectors as public officials with bonding exposures.
A truck driver, lifeguard, or librarian may certainly be a municipal employee, but those occupations do not inherently involve the fiduciary custody and accounting of public funds that makes a Treasurer the clear examination answer. A particular jurisdiction could impose bonding requirements on additional positions, but that does not alter the general surety principle tested here.
Public official bonds protect the governmental entity and ultimately the public rather than functioning as conventional liability insurance for the official.
The Series 17-70 surety material requires knowledge of official bonds, public employee bonds, fidelity obligations, principals, obligees, and sureties.
Therefore, C is correct.
