Champaign excavation bonds.
$100 flat.
Before you open a street, sidewalk, or utility strip in Champaign, the City's construction-permit rules condition your right-of-way permit on a $10,000 indemnity and maintenance bond — ours is $100 flat, and the price you see is the checkout price. The application collects no credit information, and most applications approve instantly.
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Three steps. One sitting.
An excavation bond is about the simplest filing in the permit stack. Here's the entire process:
Apply online
Business details, the job address, and an effective date. That's the application — no financials, no credit section.
Pay & e-sign
Excavation bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
File with Public Works
Your executed bond arrives by email, ready to attach to your Champaign right-of-way permit application. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
Champaign administers its streets, sidewalks, and other public ways under Chapter 30 of its Municipal Code, and requires a permit before any person builds, digs, or otherwise works within, over, under, or across a public right-of-way. That permit is conditioned on both liability insurance naming the City as additional insured and a security bond sized by the Director of Public Works to cover the cost of restoring the right-of-way.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the City of Champaign (the obligee), with the traveling public as the protected party. If a permit holder leaves a trench improperly backfilled, damages the pavement, or fails to restore the surface as required, the City can draw against the bond to complete or repair the work.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. The bond has to stay active for the life of the permit, so we track it and notify you before it lapses so your excavation authorization stays continuous.
You need this bond if you're
One application, issued instantly.
These are the actual issuing fields — no credit section, because this application doesn't collect credit information.
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Get your right-of-way permit moving.
$100 flat, soft pull only, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.