Bartlett liquor license bonds.
$100 flat.
The Village of Bartlett will not issue or renew a liquor license without a bond. Village Code § 3-3-5 requires every applicant for a liquor license to file, with the application, a $2,000 surety bond payable to the Village and conditioned on compliance with the Liquor Control Ordinance. Ours is $100 flat for the term.
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How much does a Bartlett liquor license bond cost?
$100 at the $2,000 amount, the same for every applicant.
Application to licensed premises.
Bartlett takes the bond with your liquor license application, so order it before you submit through the Village’s licensing portal. Here is the whole process on our side:
Apply online
Your business name and DBA, entity type, address, the owner and contact details, and the effective date. The $2,000 amount is already set. No credit check.
Issued instantly
The $100 premium is fixed, so there is no specialist review to wait on. The $2,000 amount is set by the Village; we just price and issue it.
File it with your liquor application
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to file with your liquor license application to the Village Clerk. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
Bartlett regulates alcohol sales through Title 3, Chapter 3 of its Village Code, the Bartlett Liquor Control Ordinance. Under § 3-3-4, an application for an initial license or the renewal of an existing one is made to the Local Liquor Commissioner on Village forms and submitted to the Village Clerk. The Village’s licensing page says the Village Clerk and Finance staff in the Main Office issue liquor licenses, and that applications are taken online through the Village’s licensing portal. The carrier lists this bond as a “Liquor Permit”; in the code’s terms it is the bond behind a liquor license.
Section 3-3-5 requires every applicant for a liquor license to file with the application a joint and several bond, executed by sureties residing in or licensed to do business in Illinois, payable to the Village in the amount of $2,000, with the surety approved by the local liquor control commissioner — under § 3-3-7, the Village President serves in that role. The bond is conditioned on the licensee’s true and faithful compliance with every provision of the liquor chapter. The one stated exception is an applicant for a nonbeverage user license, who need not file it.
It is a three-party arrangement: you, the licensee (the principal), the surety, and the Village of Bartlett (the obligee). Separately, § 3-3-6 requires liquor liability insurance with a common law liquor liability endorsement naming the Village as additional insured, with limits of not less than $500,000, plus owners/landlords and tenants liability coverage — that insurance is a different product from this bond. The bond is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety.
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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 $2,000 bond amount. You then repay the surety: a surety bond is a guarantee of your performance, not insurance for you.
Renewal and term
The term is set on the carrier’s application; the premium covers the period shown there.
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 it with your liquor application. Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to file with your liquor license application to the Village Clerk. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What sets the price
The premium is fixed at $100 at the $2,000 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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Get your Bartlett liquor license filed.
$100 flat, no credit check, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.