General contractors working in Texas City need to file a $5,000 Contractors Bond along with their registration. The bond keeps the City and its people from suffering financial loss caused by a contractor whose work is subpar.
Your Texas City General Contractor Bond is just $100 with Jet. Get on course with your registration paperwork by purchasing and getting a digital copy immediately sent to your email.
Bond Term | Cost |
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1 Year | $100 |
Once payment is complete, you will receive an emailed receipt and digital copy of your bond. You may send this digital copy to the City to get your Contractor Bond on file. If you need to mail in a physical copy, you can mail it to the address below:
City of Texas City
Building Department
928 5th Ave N
Texas City, TX 77590
As a rule, surety bonds are used as protection for clients/customers, NOT the person who holds the surety bond. Contractor bonds should be viewed as a backup plan that hopefully never gets used. Only when the contractor has messed up (and we mean royally messed up, like broke-the-contract messed up) does the bond get utilized. For contractors, this could be using materials that are not up to par, leaving a job unfinished, or other violations of the Texas City Building Regulations.
Shirking responsibilities as a contractor causes a whole slew of problems: the customer doesn’t get what they paid for, complaints are sent to the City, legal action is taken, and, in the end, the contractor at fault still ends up paying for the issue. If the complaint is found to be covered under the bond, Jet will be obligated to pay out the claim—as mentioned, the contractor will need to repay Jet in the amount of the bond claim to restore the bond. Failure to have a correct bond typically results in a nulled registration.