Hammond street opening bonds.
$300. Five minutes.
The City of Hammond, Indiana requires a $10,000 street opening permit bond before you cut, open, or excavate a city street or right-of-way. Ours is $300 flat — 3% of the bond amount — and the application is five minutes with no credit check.
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Three steps. One sitting.
Right-of-way permit bonds are the simplest thing in surety. Here's the entire process:
Apply online
Business details and an effective date. That's the application — no financials, no credit check section.
Pay & e-sign
Permit bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
File with the City of Hammond
Your executed bond arrives by email, ready to file with your Hammond street-opening permit application. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
The whole pricing page.
$10,000 bond × 3% = $300, one-time per term. Fixed amount, fixed price, multi-year if you want it.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
The City of Hammond, Indiana requires a street opening permit before anyone cuts, bores, or excavates a city street, alley, or right-of-way — for a utility tap, a sewer connection, or any work in the public way. The bond is a guarantee to the city that you will restore the pavement and right-of-way to city standards after the work.
It is a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the City of Hammond as the obligee. If you leave a cut unrestored, a settling patch, or damage the public way and the city has to repair it, the city can recover against the bond.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays the city, you repay the surety. Contractors who backfill and repave to spec treat the bond as a permit formality.
You need this bond if you are
Five minutes. The whole thing.
These are the actual issuing fields — no credit check section, because this bond doesn't have one.
Start the application →Common questions.
If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
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Pull your Hammond permit today.
$300 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.