The City of Baton Rouge requires a $1,000 fence contractor bond filed with the City-Parish to register and work as a licensed fence contractor. Ours is $275 — our flat-3% minimum. The application is five minutes, and license bonds like this are the fastest thing we issue.
















License bonds are the simplest thing in surety. Here's the entire process:
Business details and an effective date. That's the application — no financials, no credit check section, no follow-up scavenger hunt.
License bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
Your executed bond arrives by email, ready to file with the City of Baton Rouge fence contractor registration. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
$1,000 bond × 3% = $30, below our $275 minimum, so the price is $275 per term. Fixed amount, fixed price, multi-year if you want it.
A fence contractor bond is a compliance-and-consumer-protection guarantee. The City of Baton Rouge wants a financial backstop that you'll perform fence work in line with the City-Parish code and the terms of your registration.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the City of Baton Rouge (the obligee), with the public as the protected party. If a registered fence contractor violates the City-Parish code or causes harm covered by the bond, a claimant can recover against it.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. We track your filing and notify you 60 and 30 days before expiration so your registration never lapses over a missed renewal.
These are the actual issuing fields — no credit check section, because this bond doesn't have one.
Start the application →If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
$275 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.