MS outdoor advertising bonds.
$275. Five minutes.
Before you erect billboards adjacent to a Mississippi state highway, the Mississippi Department of Transportation wants a $1,000 outdoor advertising business bond on file. Ours is $275 flat — the minimum premium — and the application is five minutes with no credit check.
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Three steps. One sitting.
Permit bonds like this are about the simplest thing in surety. Here's the entire process:
Apply online
Business details, the county, and an effective date. That's the application — no financials, no credit check section.
Pay & e-sign
Small fixed permit bonds like this are among the bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
File with MDOT
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to file with your outdoor advertising permit application to the MDOT Maintenance Division in Jackson. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
The whole pricing page.
$1,000 bond, $275 flat (the minimum premium, since 3% of $1,000 is well below it), one-time per term. Multi-year if you want it.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
Mississippi regulates billboards and other signs adjacent to its state highways under the outdoor advertising provisions of the Mississippi Code (chapter 49-23), administered by the Mississippi Transportation Commission and MDOT. An outdoor advertising business must hold a permit for its signs, and MDOT conditions that on a $1,000 surety bond.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and MDOT (the obligee). The bond guarantees you'll follow the rules on the placement, adjustment, and removal of advertising signs — and it backs the cost of removing or adjusting a sign that isn't in accordance with the law.
It is not insurance for you — if MDOT has to remove or adjust a non-compliant sign and recovers against the bond, you repay the surety. Operators who keep their signs permitted and compliant treat the bond as a permit formality, and we keep your $1,000 filing continuous.
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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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If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
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Get your billboards permitted without a paperwork holdup.
$275 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.