The City of Nacogdoches requires a general contractor to file a $5,000 license bond as a condition of registering to work inside the city. Ours is $100 flat, issued instantly. The bond issues the moment you pay — no credit review of any kind, not even a soft pull.
















Municipal license bonds are the simplest thing in surety. Here's the entire process:
Business details and an effective date. That's the application — no financials, no credit fields, no follow-up scavenger hunt.
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 your Nacogdoches general contractor registration. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
A general contractor license bond is a compliance guarantee to the City of Nacogdoches. When you register as a general contractor with the city, Nacogdoches wants a financial backstop that you'll follow its building codes, permit conditions, and ordinances while you work inside city limits.
It is a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier standing behind you, and the City of Nacogdoches (the obligee). If a contractor violates the city's code or permit terms and the city or a resident is harmed, they can recover against the bond.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. Contractors who pull proper permits and follow code treat the bond as a registration formality, and we keep your $5,000 filing continuous with renewal notices 60 and 30 days out.
These are the actual issuing fields — the application collects no credit information for this bond.
Start the application →$100 flat, no credit review, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.