Eau Claire mobile home park bonds.
$100 flat.
The City of Eau Claire requires a surety bond with every new or renewal mobile home park license application under Eau Claire Code § 16.12.040(D): a $2,000 bond for parks with fewer than 100 units, and a $3,000 bond for parks with 100 or more. This page writes the $2,000 bond. Ours is $100 flat for a term.
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How much does an Eau Claire mobile home park bond cost?
$100 at the $2,000 amount, the same for every applicant.
From application to a licensed park.
Eau Claire will not accept a new or renewal park license application without this bond attached, and the license itself issues only after the park passes inspection. Here is the whole process:
Apply online
Your entity type, business address, owner and contact, and an effective date. The $2,000 amount is already set by ordinance for a park under 100 units — there is nothing to size and no financial statement to attach.
Pay & e-sign
This bond is among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase.
E-sign & file with your license application
Receive the executed bond with its power of attorney, payable to the City of Eau Claire. File it with the City Clerk alongside your license application and fee, then schedule the inspections the City requires before the license issues.
What it is and who needs it.
What the Eau Claire mobile home park bond guarantees
Chapter 16.12 of the Eau Claire Code of Ordinances is the city’s Mobile Home Code. Section 16.12.040(A) makes it unlawful for any person to construct, maintain, operate, alter, or extend a mobile home park within city limits without a valid license issued by the City Clerk in that person’s name. Under § 16.12.040(B), every license application is filed with the City Clerk and reviewed by the Plan Commission, and an original application carries the park’s location, legal description, and engineered plans for sites, roadways, utilities, and landscaping.
The bond comes in at § 16.12.040(D). Each application for a new or renewal license must be accompanied by the license fee from the City’s Fees and Licenses Schedule, together with a surety bond of two thousand dollars for parks with less than 100 mobile home units and three thousand dollars for parks with 100 or more. The bond guarantees that the licensee collects the monthly parking fees owed by the mobile home occupants and pays them to the City Treasurer. The City’s current Licensing page lists the same split by park size.
Those monthly fees are the Wisconsin monthly municipal permit fee under Wis. Stat. § 66.0435(3)(c), which lets a municipality require the community operator to collect the fee from the unit owner. Eau Claire’s code, at § 16.12.040(G), requires the fees to be paid to the City Treasurer on or before the tenth day of the month following the month they are due. If an operator collects residents’ fees and fails to turn them over, the City can claim against the bond.
It is a three-party arrangement — you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the City of Eau Claire (the obligee). If the surety pays a valid claim, you repay the surety; it is not insurance for your park. Licenses expire at the end of June every year under § 16.12.040(J), and because the bond must accompany renewal applications as well as new ones, plan on keeping it in force with each license year.
Two points trip up applicants. First, the $2,000 bond covers a park with fewer than 100 units; if your park has 100 or more, the ordinance calls for a $3,000 bond, so tell us your unit count before you apply. Second, the bond is only one piece of the license: under § 16.12.050(A) no park license issues until the City Clerk has notified the police, health officer, fire department, and building inspector, and the City’s Licensing page notes that operators also need a separate license from the Eau Claire City-County Health Department.
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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 $2,000 bond amount. You then repay the surety: a surety bond is a guarantee of your performance, not insurance for you.
Renewal and term
The term is set on the carrier’s application; the premium covers the period shown there.
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
E-sign & file with your license application. Receive the executed bond with its power of attorney, payable to the City of Eau Claire. File it with the City Clerk alongside your license application and fee, then schedule the inspections the City requires before the license issues.
What sets the price
The premium is fixed at $100 at the $2,000 amount for every applicant: the carrier’s rate book prices this bond by the form, not by your credit or your business profile.
No credit check.
One application, issued instantly.
These are the actual application fields — your entity type, business address, owner and contact, and the effective date. The $2,000 amount is locked by ordinance for a park under 100 units, and there is no credit check to fill in. Free until issued.
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