Alabama Anytime Fitness health club bonds.
$250 flat.
Alabama's Health Studio Services Act (Ala. Code §8-23-3) runs health studio registration and security-bond filings through the Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division. This is the $25,000 bond written for an Anytime Fitness franchise location's registration. Ours is $250 flat.
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How much does an Alabama Anytime Fitness health club bond cost?
$250 at the $25,000 amount, the same for every applicant.
Three steps. One sitting.
Consumer-protection registration bonds like this are simple. Here's the entire process:
Apply online
Business details, your Anytime Fitness location, and an effective date. That's most of the application — the only sensitive field is a soft credit-consent checkbox.
Pay & e-sign
Bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. Issued when you pay. One soft credit pull, never a hard inquiry, and it never affects your score.
File with the Division
Your executed bond arrives by email, ready to file with the Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division alongside your health studio registration. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
Alabama's Health Studio Services Act (Ala. Code §8-23-1 et seq.) requires every person who sells health studio services — instruction, training, or the right to use exercise or weight-reduction equipment, which reaches a franchised gym like an Anytime Fitness location — to register with the Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division and to maintain a security bond as part of that filing. The statute's own dollar figure, "not less than $50,000," is written for a studio that sells contracts for services at a planned or under-construction facility — a club taking prepaid dues before it opens its doors. An operating, already-built franchise location is registering under the same chapter without that preconstruction fact pattern, and the Division's registration filing for this Anytime Fitness location specifies a $25,000 bond; confirm the figure on your own filing before you buy.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal, the franchise location), the surety carrier, and the Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division as obligee, with your Alabama members as the protected parties. A member who suffers a loss because of the studio's breach of contract or bankruptcy may bring an action on the bond and recover against the surety; the surety's total liability can never exceed the bond's face amount, no matter how many claims are filed.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a member's claim, you repay the surety. The application asks for a soft credit-consent, not a full credit application, and it runs no hard inquiry. Keep the bond continuous for as long as the location is registered; we send renewal notices ahead of expiration so the Division filing never lapses.
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Claims, renewal, filing, and what sets the price.
If a claim is made
A claim comes from the party the bond protects, the obligee named on the form, when the duty the bond guarantees is not met.
The surety investigates and pays a valid claim, up to the $25,000 bond amount. You then repay the surety: a surety bond is a guarantee of your performance, not insurance for you.
Renewal and term
The premium covers a one-year term from the effective date you choose; a longer term is the same price per year, chosen at checkout.
Renew before the expiry date to keep the bond in force: the license, permit or contract it backs expects continuous coverage.
How to file it
File with the Division. Your executed bond arrives by email, ready to file with the Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division alongside your health studio registration. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What sets the price
The premium is fixed at $250 at the $25,000 amount for every applicant: the carrier’s rate book prices this bond by the form, not by your credit or your business profile.
One soft credit pull, never a hard inquiry, and it never affects your score.
Where a check runs, it decides approval; the rate is the same for everyone approved.
One application, issued fast.
These are the actual issuing fields — the only sensitive item is a soft credit-consent checkbox, and it never triggers a hard pull.
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$250 flat, soft pull only, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.