City of Pontiac drainlayer bonds.
$275. Five minutes.
The City of Pontiac requires a licensed drainlayer to file a $5,000 bond before installing or connecting drains into the city sewer system. Ours is $275 flat — 3% of the $5,000 penal sum, the same price for every drainlayer. The application is five minutes and this bond issues without a credit check.
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Three steps. One sitting.
Municipal drainlayer bonds are about 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, no follow-up scavenger hunt.
Pay & e-sign
Small fixed municipal 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 Pontiac
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to file with the City of Pontiac DPW when you register as a drainlayer. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
The whole pricing page.
$5,000 bond × 3% = $150, which is under our $275 minimum, so the premium is $275 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 Pontiac, in Oakland County, licenses drainlayers — the contractors who install and connect drains and sewer leads into the city system — and requires a $5,000 bond before they work in it. It's a workmanship-and-compliance guarantee to the city.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the City of Pontiac (the obligee). If a drainlayer damages the public sewer, leaves a defective drain connection, or fails to follow the city's drain and sewer-use standards, the city can recover against the bond.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. Drainlayers who do clean work and restore the site treat the bond as a license formality, not a risk.
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Five minutes. The whole thing.
These are the actual issuing fields — no credit check section, because this bond doesn't have one.
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Finish your Pontiac drainlayer license today.
$275 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.