IL second division installment bonds.
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Illinois lets the owner of second division motor vehicles — trucks, trailers, buses — pay flat weight registration taxes in two equal semiannual installments under 625 ILCS 5/3-816, but the owner electing installments must file a surety bond covering the second installment, on the Secretary of State's form. The premium is 1% of the bond amount, $100 minimum, the bond issues the moment you pay, and any credit screen is a soft pull only — it never affects your score.
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Business details, the second-installment amount you are securing, an effective date, and a term. Any credit screen is a soft pull that never shows as a hard inquiry.
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The premium is 1% of the bond amount, $100 minimum, computed before you pay — and the bond issues the moment you pay, executed bond and power of attorney on the spot.
File with the Secretary of State
Submit the executed bond with your installment election so your fiscal-year registrations can be issued with only the first installment paid. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
For second division motor vehicles — the trucks, trailers, and buses that pay Illinois flat weight taxes — 625 ILCS 5/3-816 lets the owner pay the annual tax in two equal semiannual installments instead of all at once. Fiscal-year registrations pay on July 1 and January 1. The owner electing installments must file a surety bond or certificate of deposit for the amount of the second installment, in a form approved by the Secretary of State.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the Secretary of State (the obligee). The bond is conditioned on paying all monies becoming due by reason of the operation of the second division vehicles — if the second installment goes unpaid, the state recovers it from the bond.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays, you repay the surety. Fleets that also run apportioned (IRP) plates use the companion International variant of this bond, whose installments fall on April 1 and October 1; we track the term and send renewal notices 60 and 30 days out.
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These are the actual issuing fields — business details, your bond amount, an effective date, and a term. That is the entire application.
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1% of the bond amount, $100 minimum, issued the moment you pay. Free until issued.