Dumas residential contractor bonds.
0.5% of the bond amount — $100 at $20,000.
The City of Dumas, TX requires anyone registering as a general contractor — including a residential builder or remodeler pulling a building permit — to post a $20,000 permit surety bond or show liability insurance before the city will issue permits. Pricing is 0.5% of the bond amount — $100 at the $20,000 the city requires. The application collects no credit information.
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No underwriting queue for the standard contractor registration bond — apply, pay, and file with your registration. Here is the whole thing:
Apply online
Your business details, the $20,000 bond amount the city requires, and the effective date — that is the entire application.
Issued on the spot
The application collects no credit information, and most applications approve instantly.
File with the City of Dumas
Submit the executed bond with your contractor registration application to the Building Permits and Inspections Department. Wet-ink originals mailed whenever the office insists.
What it is and who needs it.
What the contractor registration bond actually covers
The City of Dumas, TX requires anyone acting as a general contractor — building, enlarging, altering, repairing, improving, or converting a building or structure of any kind under a city permit — to register with the city and post either general liability insurance or a permit surety bond. That covers residential builders and remodelers as much as commercial contractors; Dumas registers building work by category, not by whether the job is a house.
It is a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the City of Dumas (the obligee), for the benefit of the city or the property owner. The bond covers damages from your acts or neglect, failure to repair defective work, unpaid city fees, or failure to remedy defects the building official identifies — and guarantees compliance with the city's construction codes.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. Contractors who build to code treat the $20,000 registration bond as a formality. We price it at 0.5% of the bond amount, which comes out to $100 at the $20,000 Dumas requires, and the application collects no credit information.
You need this bond if you are
One application, issued instantly.
These are the actual issuing fields — the application collects no credit information at the $20,000 amount this registration requires.
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0.5% of the bond amount — $100 at the $20,000 the city requires. Free until issued.