Sandwich street & public way bonds.
$100 flat.
The City of Sandwich, a DeKalb County community, requires a contractor performing street, sidewalk, curb, or other public-way construction work to file a $10,000 surety bond with the City before the Building & Zoning Department will issue the permit. Ours is $100 flat. The bond issues the moment you pay — no credit check.
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How much does a Sandwich street & public way bond cost?
$100 at the $10,000 amount, the same for every applicant.
Three steps. One sitting.
A city public-way construction bond is about the simplest filing in surety. Here's the entire process:
Apply online
Business details and an effective date. That is the application. No credit check.
Pay & e-sign
Permit bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase.
File with the City
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to file with Sandwich's Building & Zoning Department alongside your public-way permit application. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
Sandwich, like most Illinois municipalities, conditions any construction work inside a public street, sidewalk, curb, or other public way on a permit — and that permit is conditioned on the applicant first filing a $10,000 surety bond with the City. No permit for work touching public infrastructure is issued without it.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the City of Sandwich (the obligee), with the City and the traveling public as the protected parties. If permitted work damages a street, sidewalk, curb, or other public-way improvement and the contractor doesn't make it right, the City can recover repair costs against the bond up to the $10,000 penal sum.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. The bond generally needs to stay active for the life of the permitted work, so confirm your specific term and any restoration deadline with the Building & Zoning Department before you begin.
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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 the City. Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to file with Sandwich's Building & Zoning Department alongside your public-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.
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$100 flat, no credit check, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.