City of Duluth boarding kennel bonds.
$100 flat.
A boarding kennel in Duluth requires a fixed $3,000 license bond filed with the City of Duluth. The price is $100 flat — the same for every kennel. Issued when you pay.
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How much does a City of Duluth boarding kennel bond cost?
$100 at the $3,000 amount, the same for every applicant.
Three steps to licensed.
A Duluth boarding kennel bond is about as simple as surety gets. Here's the whole process:
Apply once, online
Business details, owner information, effective date. That is the application.
Approved
Approved as soon as you apply. There is no underwriting queue.
File with the City
Receive the executed $3,000 bond ready to file with your Duluth boarding kennel license application. Wet-ink originals mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the boarding kennel bond guarantees
The City of Duluth licenses boarding kennels — businesses that house pets overnight while their owners are away — and conditions the license on a $3,000 surety bond. Because customers leave their animals in the kennel's care for days at a time, the City wants a financial backstop standing behind the kennel's humane care and compliance with the animal-services ordinance.
The bond is a consumer-and-animal-welfare guarantee running to the City of Duluth: it stands behind your safe and humane housing of the boarded animals, honest dealing with customers, and compliance with the boarding kennel ordinance. If you violate those terms and someone is harmed, they can recover against the bond.
It's a three-party arrangement — you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the City of Duluth (the obligee). It is not insurance for you: if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety.
You need this bond if you are
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 $3,000 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 the City. Receive the executed $3,000 bond ready to file with your Duluth boarding kennel license application. Wet-ink originals mailed on request.
What sets the price
The premium is fixed at $100 at the $3,000 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.
These are the actual underwriting fields. Submit once and your $3,000 bond is issued when you pay.
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$100 flat, no credit check, $3,000 bond issued when you pay.