Oklahoma plumbing contractor bonds.
$100 flat.
Every active plumbing contractor in Oklahoma keeps a $5,000 corporate surety bond payable to the Construction Industries Board — and that one state filing stands in place of posting a separate bond in every city you work in. Ours is $100 flat, the price you see is the checkout price. No credit check.
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How much does an Oklahoma plumbing contractor bond cost?
$100 at the $5,000 amount, the same for every applicant.
Three steps. One sitting.
Plumbing contractor bonds are about the simplest thing in surety. Here is the entire process:
Apply online
Business details, the license holder's name, and an effective date. That is the application. No credit check.
Pay & e-sign
The price is final before you pay, and the executed bond and power of attorney generate on the spot. Most contractors finish this in one sitting.
File with the Construction Industries Board
The Board wants the original with signatures, seals and power of attorney attached, filed with the Plumbing Licensing Unit. Wet-ink original mailed on request — say the word at checkout.
What it is and who needs it.
What the plumbing contractor bond actually guarantees
Oklahoma licenses plumbers in four rungs — apprentice, journeyman, residential contractor, unlimited contractor — and only the two contractor rungs carry the bond, because only a contractor may contract or furnish labor and materials. A journeyman works under a licensed contractor and posts nothing. The bond is payable to the Construction Industries Board on the Board's call, and your surety files a copy of it with the Plumbing Licensing Unit.
The condition is broader than most license bonds: you conduct business in compliance with the statutes, with the Board's rules, and with the ordinances of every municipality in which you perform plumbing work, and you pay the fines and penalties imposed by Board penalty orders and by courts for municipal-ordinance violations — the Board can go to the surety for any fine you fail to pay. You also protect and indemnify the State and municipalities against liability arising from your negligence. Because of that municipal reach, one $5,000 state bond replaces the stack of city bonds you would otherwise file, and the rules ask you to notify your surety of the municipalities where you will work.
Keep it continuous. Failure to maintain the bond makes the license inactive the instant the bond expires — no notice period, no grace. A bond stays in effect until 30 days after the Board's Bonds and Insurance Unit is notified of cancellation, unless it expired on a date certain on its face. Separately, an active contractor also carries a certificate of general liability insurance of at least $50,000 with the Board named as certificate holder. It is not insurance for you: if the surety pays, you reimburse the surety.
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Claims, renewal, filing, and what sets the price.
If a claim is made
A claim comes from the party the bond protects, the obligee named on the form, when the duty the bond guarantees is not met.
The surety investigates and pays a valid claim, up to the $5,000 bond amount. You then repay the surety: a surety bond is a guarantee of your performance, not insurance for you.
Renewal and term
The premium covers a one-year term from the effective date you choose; a longer term is the same price per year, chosen at checkout.
Renew before the expiry date to keep the bond in force: the license, permit or contract it backs expects continuous coverage.
How to file it
File with the Construction Industries Board. The Board wants the original with signatures, seals and power of attorney attached, filed with the Plumbing Licensing Unit. Wet-ink original mailed on request — say the word at checkout.
What sets the price
The premium is fixed at $100 at the $5,000 amount for every applicant: the carrier’s rate book prices this bond by the form, not by your credit or your business profile.
No credit check.
One application, issued instantly.
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