Albuquerque excavation bonds.
$300. Five minutes.
To excavate any part of the Albuquerque right-of-way, the city requires a $10,000 excavation bond on its approved form. Ours is $300 flat — 3% of the bond amount, the same for every contractor. The application is five minutes, with no credit check on this bond.
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Three steps. One sitting.
Your excavation permit is waiting on this bond. Here's the entire process:
Apply online
Business details and an effective date. That's the application — no financials and no credit check section for this bond.
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 Municipal Development
Your executed bond arrives by email on the city-approved form, ready to file with your Albuquerque excavation permit. Wet-ink original mailed whenever the office insists.
The whole pricing page.
$10,000 bond × 3% = $300, 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
Any time you excavate part of the public right-of-way in Albuquerque, you have to put it back. The City of Albuquerque, through its Department of Municipal Development, requires a $10,000 excavation bond on its approved form before it issues the permit — a guarantee that you will restore the right-of-way after you open it.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the City of Albuquerque (the obligee). If you fail to backfill, compact, and restore the surface — or your cut fails — the city can recover its restoration cost against the bond.
It is not insurance for you. If the surety pays the city, you repay the surety. This $10,000 excavation bond is separate from the $5,000 concrete (sidewalk/curb/gutter/drive-pad) bond — many right-of-way contractors carry both.
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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 excavation permit today.
$300 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.