Connecticut automobile club bonds.
$100 flat.
Connecticut will not license an automobile club or association until it puts up $10,000 of security for its members — cash, approved securities, or a surety bond in like amount under CGS § 14-67. Ours is $100 flat, and the price you see is the price at checkout. No credit check, and most applications approve instantly.
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How much does a Connecticut automobile club bond cost?
$100 at the $10,000 amount, the same for every applicant.
Three steps. One sitting.
The bond is the quickest item on the DMV checklist — the certificate of good standing usually takes longer. Here is the whole thing:
Apply online
Your club’s legal name, address, contact, and an effective date. That is the application. No credit check.
Pay & e-sign
License and permit bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase.
File with DMV
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to go into the packet you send the Dealers and Repairers Licensing Unit in Wethersfield. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the automobile club bond actually guarantees
Connecticut treats a motor club as a regulated business, not an insurer. Under CGS § 14-67, nobody may operate as an automobile club or automobile association — selling, for a stipulated fee, services relating to the protection and assistance of automobile owners or drivers, such as towing, roadside assistance, trip routing, or reimbursement of legal and bail costs — without a license from the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles. Insurance is expressly outside the statute: if the product is insurance, it is the Insurance Department’s business, not the DMV’s.
The license is conditioned on financial security. The applicant deposits $10,000 in cash or approved securities with the state, or files a surety bond in like amount written by a company legally authorized to do business in Connecticut. Nearly every club chooses the bond: it costs a premium instead of tying up five figures of working capital that the state holds for the life of the license.
The security runs for the protection, use and benefit of every member of the club and every person whose membership application has been accepted. The claim path is a court one: a member obtains a judgment against the club for its failure to perform the membership contract, the judgment goes unsatisfied for thirty days, and the member can then reach the bond — recovery capped at one hundred dollars on any one action, with the $10,000 penal sum as the surety’s ceiling across all of them. It is not insurance for you: if the surety pays, you repay the surety. The bond has to stay in force for as long as the license does, so we track it and notify you 60 and 30 days out.
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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 $10,000 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 DMV. Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to go into the packet you send the Dealers and Repairers Licensing Unit in Wethersfield. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What sets the price
The premium is fixed at $100 at the $10,000 amount for every applicant: the carrier’s rate book prices this bond by the form, not by your credit or your business profile.
No credit check.
One application, issued instantly.
These are the actual issuing fields. No credit check.
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Finish your DMV license packet today.
$100 flat, no credit check, and the bond issues the moment you pay — on the DMV’s own E-140 form, ready to file. Free until issued.