Surety bonds in Dallas, Texas — issued fast by Houston's specialty bond agency.

A $10,000 surety bond filed with the City of Dallas Building Inspection on the Paving Bond Form. It is required of contractors who construct paving, sidewalks, driveway approaches, curbs, or gutters in the public right-of-way inside Dallas city limits. The bond runs to the City of Dallas as obligee and protects the city from defective workmanship and code violations on right-of-way concrete and paving work.

At the City of Dallas Building Inspection counter inside the Oak Cliff Municipal Center at 320 E. Jefferson Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75203. Dallas Development Services processes the contractor registration and accepts the executed paving bond on the City-approved Paving Bond Form. We email or courier the original bond the same day you apply.

No. Dallas does not have a citywide general contractor license. The city regulates by trade and activity. Paving, sidewalk, driveway, curb, and gutter work in the public right-of-way requires Dallas Development Services contractor registration plus the $10,000 paving bond. Separate sidewalk-only work under Dallas Code Chapter 43 carries a $2,000 sidewalk bond. Plumbing, electrical, HVAC, and irrigation are licensed at the state level by TDLR — Dallas enforces those but does not separately bond them.

The $2,000 sidewalk bond comes from Dallas Code Chapter 43, §43-43 and covers sidewalk, curb, gutter, and driveway repair in the public right-of-way. The $10,000 paving bond is the broader Dallas Building Inspection requirement for paving contractors performing larger right-of-way work — full-width paving, street cuts, driveway approaches connecting to a public street. Most paving contractors carry the $10,000 bond and Dallas Development Services registration; small sidewalk-only repair contractors often only need the $2,000.

A Texas bonded title (certificate of title surety bond). The bond amount is 1.5× the appraised value of the vehicle, the term is three years, and the issuing agency is TxDMV. Dallas residents file at the Dallas County Tax Office at 500 Elm Street. The bond and Form VTR-130-SOF are processed at the tax office counter. We write Texas bonded titles in about ten minutes.

We are based in Houston — Surety Bond Houston is the surety brand of Moon Insurance Managers, Inc. (TX License #5595), a Houston-area agency with more than 40 years of combined experience writing Texas bonds. We write Dallas bonds daily and file them electronically or by overnight courier with Dallas Building Inspection and the Dallas County Tax Office. From our Houston office, serving Dallas statewide.