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. No credit check, and most applications approve instantly.
Trusted by industry leaders
How much does a Champaign excavation bond cost?
$100 at the $10,000 amount, the same for every applicant.
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 is the application. No credit check.
Pay & e-sign
Excavation bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase.
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
Claims, renewal, filing, and what sets the price.
If a claim is made
A claim comes from the party the bond protects, the obligee named on the form, when the duty the bond guarantees is not met.
The surety investigates and pays a valid claim, up to the $10,000 bond amount. You then repay the surety: a surety bond is a guarantee of your performance, not insurance for you.
Renewal and term
The premium covers a one-year term from the effective date you choose; a longer term is the same price per year, chosen at checkout.
Renew before the expiry date to keep the bond in force: the license, permit or contract it backs expects continuous coverage.
How to file it
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 sets the price
The premium is fixed at $100 at the $10,000 amount for every applicant: the carrier’s rate book prices this bond by the form, not by your credit or your business profile.
No credit check.
One application, issued instantly.
These are the actual issuing fields. No credit check.
Start the application →Common questions.
Other Illinois bonds.
Been told you need a different amount?
Price and requirements checked on the carrier’s application, . Page updated .
Get your right-of-way permit moving.
$100 flat, no credit check, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.