Before you can open a South Beloit street, alley, or other public right-of-way to excavate, the Public Works Department conditions the excavation permit on a surety bond. Premiums cost 1% of the bond amount, $100 minimum. Enter the amount your permit calls for and your exact price appears at the application.
















Excavation permit bonds are short, standard-form obligations. Enter your amount, consent to a soft pull, and file with Public Works. Here is the whole thing:
Your details, the location of the dig, the bond amount your permit requires, and the effective date — plus a one-time consent to a soft credit pull.
Most excavation permit bonds clear quickly on the soft pull, which never affects your score — pricing is 1% of the bond amount, $100 minimum.
Your executed bond arrives by email, ready to attach to the excavation permit application. Wet-ink originals mailed on request.
An excavation permit bond is a restoration guarantee. South Beloit's Code of Ordinances regulates excavations in the public way — the streets, sidewalks, and other public places chapter, and the utilities chapter's excavation provisions both touch this work — and the Public Works Department conditions the excavation permit on a bond that backs your promise to put the street or right-of-way back the way you found it.
It is a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the City of South Beloit (the obligee), with the traveling public and adjoining property owners as the protected parties. If the excavation is left unrestored or damages the public way, the City can draw on the bond — and if the surety pays, you repay the surety.
There is no single citywide penal sum — Public Works sizes the bond to the scope, depth, and location of the excavation when the permit is granted. Enter the figure your permit calls for; your premium is priced at 1% of that amount, $100 minimum, after a one-time soft credit consent.
These are the actual underwriting fields, including a one-time consent to a soft credit pull. The pull never affects your score, and your price — from a $100 minimum — is set at application.
Start the application →Premiums from $100, soft pull only. Enter the amount your permit set and file with Public Works the same day.