NC landscape contractor bonds.
$300. Five minutes.
North Carolina requires a corporate landscape contractor license applicant to file a $10,000 compliance bond (or a $10,000 letter of credit) with the Landscape Contractors' Licensing Board. Ours is $300 flat — 3% of the bond amount. The application is five minutes, with no credit check on this bond.
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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 Board
Your executed bond (NCLCLB form SB01) arrives by email, ready to file with your corporate landscape contractor license. Wet-ink original mailed 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 (NCLCLB) under G.S. Chapter 89D. A corporate license applicant must file a $10,000 surety bond — or, as an alternative the statute allows, a $10,000 irrevocable letter of credit — approved by the Board as to form.
The bond is a compliance guarantee, conditioned on the licensee faithfully conforming to and abiding by Chapter 89D. The NCLCLB's form SB01, the Landscape Contractors' Licensing Surety Compliance Bond, protects any individual who suffers loss or damage from the licensee's noncompliance.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. Contractors who follow Chapter 89D treat the bond as a license formality, not a risk. We issue it at $300 flat with no credit check.
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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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$300 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.