TX outdoor advertisers bonds.
From $100. Enter your amount.
Before TxDOT licenses you to erect or maintain off-premise outdoor advertising signs along regulated Texas highways, the Transportation Commission requires a surety bond under Transportation Code Chapter 391 (the Highway Beautification Act). The amount scales with how many counties you advertise in; pricing is 0.5% of the bond amount, with a $100 minimum. The application itself collects no credit information.
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No underwriting queue for the standard outdoor advertisers 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 county footprint requires, and the effective date — that is the entire application.
Issued on the spot
The application collects no credit information, and most applicants approve instantly — the executed bond is generated as soon as you pay. Larger amounts may get a quick review.
File with TxDOT
Submit the executed bond with your outdoor advertising license application to TxDOT’s Right of Way Division. Wet-ink originals mailed whenever the agency insists.
What it is and who needs it.
What the outdoor advertisers bond covers
Texas regulates off-premise outdoor advertising signs — billboards advertising something not located where the sign stands — along Interstate, federal-aid primary, and rural highways under the Highway Beautification Act, Transportation Code Chapter 391. TxDOT’s Right of Way Division administers the licensing on behalf of the Texas Transportation Commission.
A person must hold a license before erecting or maintaining a regulated off-premise sign, and a surety bond is a condition of that license. The bond runs to the Commission and secures the licensee’s compliance with Chapter 391 — chiefly that signs are erected and maintained lawfully and that unlawful signs are removed.
The amount is $2,500 for each county in which you maintain signs, capped at $10,000 — so advertisers in four or more counties post the maximum. If the Commission has to remove an unlawful sign and recover the cost, it can claim against the bond; if the surety pays, you repay the surety.
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One application, issued on the spot.
Submit the application with your required bond amount — your exact price is shown before you pay, and the executed bond is generated instantly, ready to file with TxDOT.
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From $100. Enter your county footprint amount and file with TxDOT the same day.