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Texas outdoor advertisers bonds.
From $100.
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.
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Three steps. One sitting.
No underwriting queue for the standard outdoor advertisers bond — enter your amount, pay, and file with TxDOT. Here is the whole thing:
Apply online
Your business details, the bond amount your county footprint requires, and the effective date — that is the application.
Issued on the spot
No credit check up to $100,000, and most applicants approve instantly — the executed bond is generated as soon as you pay.
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.
You need this bond if you are
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 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.
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 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 sets the price
The premium is 0.5% of the bond amount, $100 minimum: the amount the obligee sets moves the price, not your business profile.
No credit check up to $100,000. Above that, the carrier may run a soft pull, which never affects your score.
Where a check runs, it decides approval; the rate is the same for everyone approved.
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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Outdoor advertisers bond, issued today.
From $100. Enter your county footprint amount and file with TxDOT the same day.