Berwyn contractor license bonds.
From $100. Enter your amount.
The City of Berwyn conditions a contractor license on a surety bond under its contractors and building tradesmen ordinance, filed with the city's licensing office. The required amount runs from $10,000 for trades such as electrical, plumbing, and HVAC up to $25,000 or more for general contracting, excavating, wrecking, and demolition. Premiums cost 0.5% of the bond amount, $100 minimum.
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Apply to filed in one sitting.
Enter the amount your contractor classification requires, pay, and file. Here is the whole thing:
Apply online
Your business details, your contractor classification, the bond amount it requires, and the effective date — that is the entire application.
Approved
The application collects no credit information, and most applications approve instantly. Pricing is 0.5% of the bond amount, $100 minimum.
File with the City
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to file with Berwyn's licensing office so your contractor license can issue. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the Berwyn contractor bond actually guarantees
The City of Berwyn licenses contractors and building tradesmen working in the city and conditions the license on a surety bond, sized to the trade. Berwyn's fee schedule sets $10,000 for trades such as electrical, plumbing, and HVAC contractors, and $25,000 for general contractors, awning installers, crane operators, environmental, excavating, sign, waste hauling, and wrecking/demolition contractors. It is a code-compliance and public-protection guarantee — it backs your promise to work to the City's codes.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the City of Berwyn (the obligee), with the public as the protected party. If licensed work violates city ordinance and the City or a harmed party suffers a loss, they can recover against the bond up to the required amount.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. Enter the bond amount your contractor classification requires and your premium is priced from a $100 minimum.
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One application, issued instantly.
These are the actual issuing fields — no credit section, because this bond doesn't collect credit information.
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From $100, soft pull only, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.