The City of Shawnee requires tree sprayers to file a $1,000 surety bond as a condition of a city license. 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 Shawnee for your tree sprayer license. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
$1,000 bond × 3% = $30, 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 Shawnee tree sprayer bond is a compliance-and-public-protection guarantee. Spraying trees involves chemicals near homes, neighbors, and public property — the city wants a financial backstop that you follow its tree-care ordinance and that you are answerable for damage your spraying causes.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier standing behind you, and the City of Shawnee (the obligee). If you violate the ordinance or harm public property, the city can recover against the bond.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. Sprayers who work to code and apply carefully treat the bond as a license 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.