City of Southgate restoration bonds.
From $100. Enter your amount.
The City of Southgate requires a restoration performance bond when a contractor opens, cuts, or disturbs city streets, sidewalks, or right-of-way — it guarantees you restore everything to the city’s standard. The city sets the amount; the premium is 1% of the bond amount, $100 minimum. Your exact price appears at the 60-second application, which collects no credit information.
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No underwriting queue for the standard restoration bond — enter your amount, pay, and file with the city. Here is the whole thing:
Apply online
Your business details, the bond amount the city required, and the effective date — that is the entire application.
Issued on the spot
The application collects no credit information, so most amounts issue as soon as you pay. Larger amounts may get a quick review.
File with the City of Southgate
Submit the executed bond with your street-opening or right-of-way permit application. Wet-ink originals mailed whenever the city insists.
What it is and who needs it.
What the restoration bond actually covers
The City of Southgate, in Wayne County, controls its streets, sidewalks, curbs, and public right-of-way. When a contractor or utility cuts pavement, trenches the parkway, or otherwise disturbs city property, Southgate requires a restoration performance bond as a condition of the permit.
The bond guarantees that you restore the disturbed area to the city’s specification — backfill, repave, replace sidewalk and curb, and leave it as good as or better than you found it. If you walk away from an unrestored cut or your patch fails, the city can recover against the bond to finish the work.
It’s a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety, and the City of Southgate (the obligee). It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays the city to repair your work, you repay the surety. Enter the amount the city set; premiums start from $100 and the application collects no credit information.
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Five minutes, issued on the spot.
Submit the application with the bond amount the City of Southgate set — the executed bond is generated instantly, ready to file with your permit.
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Southgate restoration bond, issued today.
Five-minute application, premiums from $100. Enter the amount the city required and file the same day.