Kansas City ROW bonds.
From $100. Enter your amount.
The City of Kansas City requires a right-of-way performance and maintenance bond before it issues a right-of-way use permit — it backs both the restoration of the right-of-way and a maintenance period after the work. The city sets the amount; premiums are 2% of the bond amount, with a $100 minimum. Your exact price appears at the 60-second application.
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No underwriting queue for the standard right-of-way bond — enter the amount the city set, pay, and file with the permit office. Here is the whole thing:
Apply online
Your business details, the bond amount the City of Kansas City required, and the effective date — that is the entire application.
Issued on the spot
The application collects no credit information for most bond amounts, and the executed bond is generated as soon as you pay. Larger amounts may get a quick soft credit check and review.
File with the KC permit office
Submit the executed bond to the City of Kansas City permit office to get your right-of-way use permit issued. Wet-ink originals mailed whenever the city insists.
What it is and who needs it.
What the right-of-way bond actually covers
The City of Kansas City controls work in its public right-of-way — street cuts, bores, driveway connections, line installations — and will not issue a right-of-way use permit without a performance and maintenance bond on file. The bond does two jobs: it guarantees the work is completed to city standards, and it stands behind a maintenance period afterward.
That maintenance period often extends two to three years beyond the project, and a defect that appears during it — settled trench, failed patch, damaged curb — can trigger a claim. The bond gives the city the funds to fix the right-of-way if the contractor doesn't.
Because the work varies, the amount is whatever the City of Kansas City sets on your permit, usually tied to the value of the work in the right-of-way. Enter that figure and your exact premium — from $100 — appears at the application. The application collects no credit information for most amounts; larger amounts may get a quick soft credit check that never affects your score.
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Five minutes, issued on the spot.
Submit the application with the bond amount the City of Kansas City set — the executed bond is generated instantly, ready to file with the permit office.
Start the application →Common questions.
If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
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Kansas City ROW bond, issued today.
Five-minute application, premiums from $100. Enter the amount the city required and file with the permit office the same day.