The City of Mountain Brook requires a $10,000 surety bond of plumbers and gas fitters as a condition of the city contractor license, filed with the Licenses & Permits Office. Ours is $300 flat — 3% of the bond amount — and the application is five minutes.
















Contractor license bonds are simple. Here's the entire process:
Business details and an effective date. That's the application — no financials, no credit check section on this bond.
License bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
Your executed bond arrives by email, ready to file with the Mountain Brook Licenses & Permits Office alongside your contractor license. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
$10,000 bond × 3% = $300, one-time per term. Fixed amount, fixed price, multi-year if you want it.
Mountain Brook licenses plumbing and gas-fitting contractors through its Licenses & Permits Office, and conditions the license on a $10,000 surety bond filed with the city. Plumbing and gas work touches water supply, drainage, and fuel lines, so the city wants a financial backstop against work that harms the public or city infrastructure.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the City of Mountain Brook (the obligee), with the public as the protected parties. The bond guarantees that your work will not cause harm to the public and that you will follow the city's permit conditions.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. The bond must stay active for the life of your city license, so we track it and notify you 60 and 30 days out.
These are the actual issuing fields — no credit check section, because this bond doesn't have one.
Start the application →If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
$300 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.