Kentucky septic servicing bonds.
$100 flat.
Kentucky requires a business that pumps or services septic tanks to hold a septic tank servicing business license from the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, and to file a $5,000 surety bond with the application under 902 KAR 10:170 (form DFS-335). Ours is $100 flat, and this fixed license bond issues fast.
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How much does a Kentucky septic servicing bond cost?
$100 at the $5,000 amount, the same for every applicant.
Three steps. One sitting.
Fixed-amount license bonds are the simplest thing in surety. Here's the entire process:
Apply online
Business details and an effective date. That is the application. No credit check.
Pay & e-sign
Fixed-amount license bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase.
File with your license application
Your executed bond (form DFS-335) arrives by email, ready to file with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services license application (DFS-306). Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
Kentucky regulates businesses that service septic tanks, holding tanks, portable toilets, and similar onsite sewage works through the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Department for Public Health. A business must hold an annual septic tank servicing business license, and 902 KAR 10:170 requires a $5,000 surety bond filed with the application.
The bond is a public-and-consumer-protection guarantee: it stands behind your compliance with the sanitation rules for collecting, transporting, and disposing of domestic septage. It is a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the Cabinet (the obligee), with the public protected.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a valid claim, you repay the surety. The license is annual, with applications due to the Cabinet before March 1; the bond is filed on form DFS-335 alongside the DFS-306 application.
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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 $5,000 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 your license application. Your executed bond (form DFS-335) arrives by email, ready to file with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services license application (DFS-306). Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What sets the price
The premium is fixed at $100 at the $5,000 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.
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Septic servicing bond, issued today.
$100 flat, no credit check, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.