The City of Bartlesville requires sign installers to file a $2,000 surety bond as a condition of a sign installation permit. Ours is $275 flat — at this bond size the 3% rate lands on our $275 minimum. The application is five minutes, and city license bonds like this are the fastest thing we issue.
















City license bonds are the simplest thing in surety. Here is the entire process:
Business details and an effective date. That is the application — no financials, no credit check section, no follow-up scavenger hunt.
Small city license bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to file with the City of Bartlesville for your sign installation permit. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
$2,000 bond × 3% = $60, which is below our $275 minimum, so the premium is $275 per term. Fixed amount, fixed price, multi-year if you want it.
A City of Bartlesville sign installation bond is a compliance-and-public-protection guarantee. The city wants a financial backstop that the signs you install meet its code and that you repair any damage to public property — sidewalks, rights-of-way, utilities — caused by your work.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier standing behind you, and the City of Bartlesville (the obligee). If you violate the sign ordinance or leave city property damaged, the city can recover against the bond.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. Installers who follow the sign code and clean up after themselves treat the bond as a permit formality, not a risk.
These are the actual issuing fields — no credit check section, because this bond does not 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.