Washoe County excavation bonds.
$275. Five minutes.
Washoe County requires a $5,000 performance bond for an encroachment/excavation permit before you cut into the county right-of-way. Ours is $275 flat — the minimum premium, because 3% of $5,000 lands below it. The application is five minutes, and permit bonds like this are the fastest thing we issue.
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Three steps. One sitting.
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, no follow-up scavenger hunt.
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 Washoe County
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to file with Washoe County CSD Engineering and Capital Projects with your encroachment/excavation permit. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
The whole pricing page.
$5,000 bond × 3% = $150, which is under our $275 minimum — so the price is $275, 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
An excavation permit bond is a restoration guarantee. Before you cut into a county street, sidewalk, gutter, or alley, Washoe County conditions the encroachment/excavation permit on the bond so that work in the right-of-way isn't left incomplete or unrestored.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and Washoe County (the obligee), with the traveling public as the protected parties. If a permittee abandons the cut or fails to restore the right-of-way, the county can recover restoration costs against the bond — up to the $5,000 penal sum.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. Contractors who restore their work and pass final inspection treat the bond as a permit formality. We issue the $5,000 bond on the form the county requires.
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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.
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 Washoe County permit today.
$275 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.