A private MVD service provider — a partner office authorized to process New Mexico motor vehicle transactions — files a $125,000 payment & performance bond with the Taxation & Revenue Department. Ours is $3,750 flat, a flat 3% of the bond amount, identical for every provider. One soft credit pull, e-signed in 1–2 business days.
















Your MVD partner agreement is waiting on this bond. Here's the entire process — no broker phone tag:
Business details, owner information, effective date, and a few standard surety questions. That is the application — plus a one-time consent to a soft credit pull.
A $125,000 payment & performance bond gets an underwriter review; most clear quickly, and you hear back within 48 hours if anything else is needed. The credit check is a soft pull that never affects your score.
Pay online and receive the executed bond and power of attorney, ready to file with the MVD / Taxation & Revenue Department for your partner agreement. Wet-ink originals mailed whenever the state insists.
$125,000 bond × 3% = $3,750, one-time per term. Fixed amount, fixed price, multi-year if you want it.
New Mexico's Motor Vehicle Division, part of the Taxation & Revenue Department, contracts with private partners to provide selected MVD services — registering and titling vehicles, issuing credentials, and collecting the fees and taxes due on each transaction. A provider operating under one of these partner agreements posts a $125,000 payment & performance bond.
It is a payment and performance bond: it stands behind both your duty to remit the fees and taxes you collect on the state's behalf and your performance of the services the agreement requires. It is a three-party arrangement — you (the provider/principal), the surety carrier, and the State of New Mexico (the obligee). If a provider fails to remit collected funds or fails to perform, the state can recover against the bond.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. Providers who remit on time and keep clean records treat the bond as a condition of their agreement, not a risk. The $125,000 amount is fixed by the program, so the price is simply 3% of it.
These are the actual underwriting fields, including a few standard surety questions and a one-time consent to a soft credit pull. Submit once and your bond is typically issued within 1–2 business days.
Start the application →If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
$3,750 flat, five-minute application, e-signed bond in 1–2 business days. Free until issued.