The City of Avon Lake requires a registered landscape contractor to file a $5,000 bond with the City. Ours is $275 flat — 3% of $5,000 is $150, so this lands at our $275 minimum. The application is five minutes, and municipal license bonds like this are the fastest thing we issue.
















Municipal contractor bonds are the simplest thing in surety. Here's the entire process:
Business details and an effective date. That's the application — no financials, no credit check section.
Municipal contractor bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
Your executed bond arrives by email, ready to file with your landscape contractor registration at the City of Avon Lake. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
$5,000 bond × 3% = $150, below our $275 minimum, so $275 one-time per term. Fixed amount, fixed price, multi-year if you want it.
A landscape contractor registration bond is a compliance guarantee to the municipality. The City of Avon Lake wants assurance that a registered landscape contractor will work to the City’s ordinances and permit conditions, and will repair any damage to public property — tree lawns, right-of-way, and city infrastructure.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the City of Avon Lake (the obligee). If your work damages public property or violates the City's requirements and the City or a resident is harmed, the harmed party can recover against the $5,000 bond.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. Contractors who follow the City's rules and restore disturbed property treat the bond as a registration formality, not a risk.
These are the actual issuing fields — no credit check section, because this bond doesn't have one.
Start the application →If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
$275 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.