NC landscape contractor bonds.
$300. Five minutes.
North Carolina requires a licensed landscape contractor to be covered by a $10,000 surety compliance bond filed with the Landscape Contractors' Licensing Board — ours is $300 flat, which is 3% of the bond amount. The application is five minutes, and license bonds like this are the fastest thing we issue.
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Three steps. One sitting.
License bonds are the simplest thing in surety. Here's the entire process:
Apply online
Business details and an effective date. That's the application — no financials, no credit check section, no follow-up scavenger hunt.
Pay & e-sign
License bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
File with the Licensing Board
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email. The Board wants the original Form SB01 and power of attorney mailed to its Raleigh office — we mail the wet-ink original on request.
The whole pricing page.
$10,000 bond × 3% = $300, one-time per term. Fixed amount, fixed price, multi-year if you want it.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
North Carolina licenses landscape contractors through the Landscape Contractors' Licensing Board, and conditions the license on a $10,000 surety compliance bond. The bond is a consumer-protection guarantee: it stands behind your compliance with Chapter 89D and protects any person who suffers loss from a licensed contractor's noncompliance.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the Board with the public as the protected parties. You must be covered by a bond at all times you hold the license — either an individual bond like this one, or a corporate bond through your employer. Leave the corporate bond and you need your own.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. The Board uses Form SB01, the North Carolina Landscape Contractors' Licensing Surety Compliance Bond; we issue on that form and track the renewal so your license stays 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.
Start the application →Common questions.
If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
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$300 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.