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St. Pete ROW performance bonds.
From $100.
The City of St. Petersburg requires communications and wireless providers, and public utilities without a City franchise, to post a right-of-way performance bond as a condition of a right-of-way construction permit. The premium is 2% of the bond amount, $100 minimum, with a quick soft credit check that never affects your score.
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Three steps to filed.
Your ROW permit is waiting on this performance bond. Here is the whole thing — one soft pull, no broker phone tag:
Apply once, online
Business details, the contract date, a description of the work, and your permit number. The only extra step is a one-time consent to a soft credit pull.
Reviewed & approved
Performance bonds get a quick underwriting look; if anything is needed, you hear from an underwriter within 48 hours. The credit check is a soft pull that never affects your score.
E-sign & file with St. Petersburg
Pay online and receive the executed bond ready to file with your right-of-way permit at the City of St. Petersburg. Wet-ink originals mailed whenever the city insists.
What it is and who needs it.
What the St. Petersburg performance bond covers
The City of St. Petersburg requires every provider to post security before it accepts a right-of-way construction permit. City Code § 25-299 defines a provider as anyone who owns or operates a system providing communications or wireless services, a wireless infrastructure provider, or a public utility without a City franchise. The security is a performance bond, a letter of credit or both. The bond protects the city, not the provider.
Under City Code §§ 25-299 and 25-311 it secures proper and complete construction or repair of your facilities, restoration of the right-of-way and your compliance with the construction permit. For communications providers, state law (§337.401(3), Fla. Stat.) limits a construction bond to restoring the right-of-way, for no more than 18 months after the work is done.
The City asks for a $25,000 continuing security fund, which it may reduce, or a bond for one project, sized from the type of facilities, how much of the right-of-way you disturb, the restoration needed and your past performance. If the city calls the bond and the surety pays, you repay the surety — so performance bonds may carry a quick soft credit check, which never affects your score and can inform approval; the premium itself is 2% of the bond amount, $100 minimum.
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One application, issued instantly.
These are the actual underwriting fields, including your permit details and a one-time consent to a soft credit pull. Submit once and your bond is typically issued within 1–2 business days.
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St. Pete ROW performance bond, issued fast.
From $100, one soft credit check that never affects your score. E-signed bond in 1–2 business days.