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Circle Pines fence contractor bonds.
$100 flat.
Every perimeter fence in Circle Pines, Minnesota needs a building permit, and a contractor doing permit work must hold a Minnesota state license or a City contractor license. Installers without a state license take the City license, which requires a $2,000 surety bond with every application. Ours is $100 flat for a term.
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Circle Pines grants the contractor license only once the bond, insurance, and application are on file — and its building official will not process a fence permit until the City confirms the license. Here is the whole process:
Send us the license details
Apply online with your business details, the $2,000 bond amount, and the effective date. There is no credit section and no SSN field on this application.
A surety specialist confirms it
The amount is already set at $2,000 by Circle Pines City Code and the price is already fixed at $100, so the review is about the license paperwork, not about sizing or pricing. A specialist confirms it and sends it back for approval.
Pay $100, e-sign & file with the City Clerk
Once you approve and pay $100 for the term, the executed bond arrives by email, ready to attach to your Contractor License Application for the City Clerk at Circle Pines City Hall. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the Circle Pines contractor license bond guarantees
Circle Pines licenses contractors under Section 1205 of Chapter 12 (Building Code) of its City Code. Section 1205.02 says that before anyone engages in the business of the listed types of work in the city, they must first obtain a license either from the City or from the State — and the list ends with (n), any work for which a building permit is required by the Code. Zoning Section 1315.08 Subd. 3 then requires a building permit before construction of every perimeter fence: any fence with a portion within five feet of a property line running roughly parallel to it, any fence longer than 75 feet, and any fence extending off a perimeter fence.
So a fence installer who holds no Minnesota state contractor license takes the City license, and Section 1205.12 requires a bond with every application: $2,000 as an annual-aggregate limit, executed by a surety authorized in Minnesota and approved as to form by the City Attorney. It guarantees that during the license term you keep complying with Section 1205 and all City laws, and that if you default on a contract, the homeowner's advance payments — less the reasonable value of work actually done, or the reasonable cost of completing it — are refunded. The City also holds a cause of action on the bond for any damage caused by your noncompliance, and the surety cannot cancel without 30 days' written notice served on the City Clerk.
It is a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the City of Circle Pines (the obligee), with your customers as protected parties. It is not insurance for you — if the surety refunds a customer or pays the City, you repay the surety. A contractor who already holds a Minnesota state license files a copy of it instead of the City application and posts no City bond, and the City form lists separate state bonds for mechanical and sign contractors.
You need this bond if you’re
One application, one specialist review.
These are the actual issuing fields — your business details, the bond amount and effective date, and a contact person. There is no credit section on this bond. Submit once and pay $100 for the term; a surety specialist confirms your license paperwork, typically within one business day. Free until your bond is issued.
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Get the Circle Pines contractor bond off your fence-permit checklist.
$100 flat, term. Send us one short application and a surety specialist confirms your paperwork, typically within one business day. Free until issued.