Oregon landscape contractor bonds.
$200 flat.
Every Oregon landscape contracting business keeps a surety bond continuously on file with the Landscape Contractors Board (LCB) under ORS 671.690 — and since January 1, 2026 that bond is $20,000 for every license phase except probationary. Ours is $200 flat, and the price you see is the checkout price.
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How much does an Oregon landscape contractor bond cost?
$200 at the $20,000 amount, the same for every applicant.
Three steps. One sitting.
The bond is the fastest line on the LCB application — the owner/managing employee course and the verification forms are the slow part. Here is the whole bond side of it:
Apply online
Business details, your LCB license number if one has already issued, and an effective date. That is the application. No credit check.
Pay & e-sign
License bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase.
File with the LCB
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to send to the Landscape Contractors Board in Salem by email, fax or mail with your application or renewal. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the LCB bond actually guarantees
Oregon regulates landscaping through the Landscape Contractors Board, and it licenses two different things: the landscape contracting business that signs the contract, and the individual landscape construction professional who supervises the work. Only the business files security. ORS 671.690 conditions that license on a surety bond, an irrevocable letter of credit, or a cash deposit kept continuously on file with the board, alongside a certificate of liability insurance of not less than $500,000 naming the LCB as certificate holder.
The bond is conditioned on the things a landscaping customer actually gets hurt by. Under ORS 671.690(2) it answers for state taxes the business owes, amounts due to laborers and material suppliers, damages arising from negligent or improper work or a breach of a landscaping contract (written or oral), and any amount the board orders paid under ORS 671.703. It is a three-party arrangement — you as the principal, the surety carrier, and the board with your customers as the protected parties. It is not insurance for you: if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety.
Claims do not reach the bond casually. Under OAR 808-004-0600 the board notifies the surety only once a claim is ready for payment — after an arbitration award, a final order in a contested case, or a court judgment, with 30 days elapsed for the contractor to pay or file exceptions. The bond that was in force when the work period began answers for that job, so a mid-job increase does not retroactively cover earlier work. Three details worth knowing: the full penal sum is available even if it exceeds the required amount, a surety may not condition payment on a release from the claimant, and an inactive, expired, suspended or revoked license does not excuse payment. If your bond terminates, is withdrawn, or drops below the required amount, ORS 671.690 gives you one option — file replacement security immediately or surrender the license.
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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 $20,000 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.
Renewal falls on the statutory date, October 7, in the year your term ends.
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 LCB. Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to send to the Landscape Contractors Board in Salem by email, fax or mail with your application or renewal. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What sets the price
The premium is fixed at $200 at the $20,000 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.
These are the actual issuing fields. No credit check.
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$200 flat, the current $20,000 amount, and the executed bond often in the same sitting. Free until issued.