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

Two main ones. The Fort Worth Development Services Parkway Contractor Bond is tiered: $10,000 for residential parkway work (driveways, sidewalks, curbs in a residential right-of-way) and $25,000 once you move to commercial parkway work. Separately, the Fort Worth Street & Storm Drain Contractor Bond is $25,000 and covers contractors building or repairing public streets and storm drainage. Larger ROW-tied utility and excavation work usually also requires its own permit-level surety.

At Fort Worth Development Services, 200 Texas Street, Fort Worth, TX 76102. The department handles parkway contractor registrations, street and storm drain registrations, and the supporting bonds. We email PDFs the same day and overnight original bonds when the obligee requires originals at the counter.

It depends on where you work. Residential parkway $10K covers driveways, sidewalks, curbs, and parkway concrete in residential rights-of-way — small contractors, driveway crews, and concrete subs serving single-family neighborhoods. Commercial parkway $25K is required once you move into commercial parkway work, including driveway approaches and parkway concrete tied to commercial development. Contractors who do both ordinarily carry the higher $25K commercial bond, which satisfies both tiers.

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. Fort Worth and Tarrant County residents file at the Tarrant County Tax Office at 100 E. Weatherford Street. The bond and Form VTR-130-SOF are processed at the tax office counter. We write Texas bonded titles in about ten minutes.

They overlap but are not identical. Both sit in Tarrant County and share state-level licensing through TDLR for electrical, plumbing, HVAC, and irrigation. But Fort Worth runs its own Development Services parkway and street/storm drain bond schedule, and Arlington runs its own contractor registration framework under Arlington Code Ch. 5. Contractors working both cities file in both — two bond filings, not one.

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 Fort Worth bonds daily and file them electronically or by overnight courier with Fort Worth Development Services and the Tarrant County Tax Office. From our Houston office, serving Fort Worth statewide.