TX commercial sign operator bonds.
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Before TxDOT licenses you to erect or maintain off-premise (outdoor advertising) signs, you file a surety bond — Transportation Code Chapters 391 and 394. It secures the state for the cost of removing unlawful signs. Pricing is 1% of your bond amount, with a $100 minimum — enter the amount your license requires and your exact price appears at the application.
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No underwriting queue for the standard sign operator bond — enter your amount, pay, and file with TxDOT. Here is the whole thing:
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Your business details, the bond amount your TxDOT license required, and the effective date — that is the entire application.
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No waiting — most applications approve instantly and the executed bond is generated as soon as you pay.
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Submit the executed bond on TxDOT’s outdoor advertising bond form with your license application. Wet-ink originals mailed whenever the agency insists.
What it is and who needs it.
What the sign operator bond actually covers
TxDOT regulates outdoor advertising — billboards and other off-premise signs — along Texas highways under Transportation Code Chapter 391 and along rural roads outside city limits under Chapter 394. Before it licenses a sign operator, it requires a surety bond.
The bond secures the state for the cost of removing unlawful or abandoned signs. If a licensee puts up or maintains a non-compliant off-premise sign and does not take it down, TxDOT can recover the removal cost against the bond. The amount is tied to where you operate — $2,500 for each county in which you erect or maintain a sign, and no operator may be required to provide more than $10,000 in surety bonds (Transportation Code §391.064 for commercial signs, §394.0204 for off-premise signs).
It protects the public and the state, not the operator — if the surety pays a removal claim, the operator repays the surety. We issue the amount your TxDOT license requires, priced from a $100 minimum with the application collecting no credit information.
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One application, issued on the spot.
Submit the application with the bond amount your TxDOT license requires — most applications approve instantly, and the executed bond is generated ready to file.
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Pricing from $100. Enter the amount your TxDOT license requires and file the same day.