Acadia Parish road use bonds.
$250 flat.
Before the Acadia Parish Police Jury will issue a permit to haul heavy or oversize loads over parish roads, it requires a $25,000 guarantee deposit — a certified check or a surety bond. Ours is $250 flat, and the price you see is the checkout price. The bond issues the moment you pay — no credit check.
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How much does an Acadia Parish road use bond cost?
$250 at the $25,000 amount, the same for every applicant.
Three steps. One sitting.
A parish road-use bond is one of the simpler filings in surety. Here's the entire process:
Apply online
Business details, an effective date and the parish road location you'll be using. That is the application. No credit check.
Pay & e-sign
This bond is among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase — no underwriter review and no credit check.
File with the Police Jury
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to file with the Acadia Parish Police Jury in Crowley alongside your road-use permit application. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
Acadia Parish Code of Ordinances § 11-3 requires anyone who travels, transports or hauls over parish-maintained roads, roadside ditches or rights-of-way with vehicles or trailers exceeding 80% of the weight limits DOTD sets for non-interstate highways — or exceeding DOTD's maximum widths, heights or lengths — to first secure a written permit from the Police Jury. In practice that means timber and logging crews, dirt haulers, geophysical and oil-and-gas crews, and heavy-equipment contractors working off parish roads.
Before the permit issues, § 11-3(d) requires a guarantee deposit of at least $25,000, in the form of a certified check or a surety bond made payable to the Acadia Parish Police Jury. It guarantees that you will repair every bit of damage your trucks, contractors, subcontractors and equipment do to parish roadways, ditches and rights-of-way — restoring them to a condition equal to or better than the pre-permit inspection. If you don't finish repairs within 45 days of written notice, the parish can do the work itself and draw on the deposit to pay for it.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the Acadia Parish Police Jury (the obligee). It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays the parish for repairs, you repay the surety. And the $25,000 is a floor, not a cap: the ordinance makes you liable for any repair cost beyond the deposit. The permit also requires your own public liability and property damage insurance, which this bond does not replace.
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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 $25,000 bond amount. You then repay the surety: a surety bond is a guarantee of your performance, not insurance for you.
Renewal and term
The term is set on the carrier’s application; the premium covers the period shown there.
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 Police Jury. Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to file with the Acadia Parish Police Jury in Crowley alongside your road-use permit application. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What sets the price
The premium is fixed at $250 at the $25,000 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.
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Get your Acadia Parish road-use permit moving today.
$250 flat, no credit check, bond issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.