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

San Antonio runs one of the most layered municipal bond stacks in Texas. The three most common are the $2,000 sidewalk / curb / gutter contractor bond under SA Code Chapter 29 Article III, the right-of-way permit bond ($10,000 per permit or $100,000 blanket) administered by SA Public Works, and the $45,000 sign contractor bond filed with SA Development Services. Contractors who work paving, ROW utility cuts, or commercial signage usually file more than one.

At the Cliff Morton Development & Business Services Center, 1901 South Alamo Street, San Antonio, TX 78204. The center houses SA Development Services (sign contractor licensing, building permits) and is across the campus from SA Public Works ROW permitting. Sidewalk and curb bonds are also accepted there. We email PDFs the same day and overnight original bonds when the obligee requires originals.

The bond amount is $45,000 — significantly higher than most Texas city sign bonds. It is required by SA Development Services for any contractor erecting, altering, or maintaining signs and billboards inside city limits. Standard-credit premium typically runs $450–$900 annually (1–2% of the bond amount). It is one of the highest-amount municipal bonds we write outside of contract surety, which is why San Antonio sign contractors often shop the rate carefully.

You have two options. Per-permit: a $10,000 bond filed for each individual ROW permit issued by SA Public Works. Blanket: a $100,000 annual bond that covers all ROW permits pulled by the contractor for that bond year. Most utility, fiber, and paving contractors running multiple SA jobs file the $100,000 blanket because the premium difference (typically 1–3% of the bond amount) is cheaper than re-bonding every job and the paperwork is one annual transaction instead of fifty.

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. San Antonio and Bexar County residents file at the Bexar County Tax Office at 233 N. Pecos La Trinidad. 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 San Antonio bonds daily and file them electronically or by overnight courier to the Cliff Morton Center and the Bexar County Tax Office. From our Houston office, serving San Antonio statewide.