KY septic tank servicing bonds.
$275. Five minutes.
Kentucky requires a business that services or maintains septic tanks to file a fixed $5,000 bond with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services for its annual license. Ours is $275 flat — the minimum premium, since 3% of $5,000 lands below it. The application is five minutes, with no credit check.
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Three steps. One sitting.
License bonds are the simplest thing in surety. Here is the entire process:
Apply online
Business details and an effective date. That’s the application — no financials, no credit check section, no follow-up scavenger hunt.
Pay & e-sign
License bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
File with the Cabinet
Your executed bond (form DFS-335) arrives by email, ready to file with your DFS-306 license application. The original is signed by the principal before filing, and we mail wet-ink originals on request.
The whole pricing page.
$5,000 bond × 3% = $150, which is below our $275 minimum — so the price is $275, one-time per term. Fixed amount, fixed price, multi-year if you want it.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
Kentucky licenses businesses that service or maintain septic tanks through the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Department for Public Health. Under 902 KAR 10:170, the annual business license requires a $5,000 surety bond, filed on form DFS-335 with the DFS-306 license application.
The bond is a consumer-protection guarantee. It protects all persons damaged by faulty workmanship in the servicing or maintaining of septic tanks, holding tanks, portable toilets, grease traps, and similar treatment works — and it guarantees the licensee’s appearance as required.
It is a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the Cabinet (the obligee), with your customers as the protected parties. It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim for faulty work, you repay the surety. The bond runs with your annual license.
You need this bond if you are
Five minutes. The whole thing.
These are the actual issuing fields — no credit check section, because this bond doesn’t have one.
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$275 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.