Santa Fe street cut bonds.
$100. Five minutes.
The City of Santa Fe will not issue a street cut permit until you have a $10,000 street cut bond on file with Public Works. Ours is $100 flat — set by our carrier's rate book, the same for every contractor. The application is five minutes and collects no credit information.
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Three steps. One sitting.
A street cut 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 section, because this bond collects no credit information.
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 Public Works
Your executed bond arrives by email, ready to file with your City of Santa Fe street cut permit application. Wet-ink original mailed whenever the office insists.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
When you cut or excavate a public street in Santa Fe, you are opening up pavement the city has to live with for decades. The City of Santa Fe Public Works department requires a $10,000 street cut bond as a condition of the permit — a guarantee that you will restore the street to its approved condition after the work.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier standing behind you, and the City of Santa Fe (the obligee). If you fail to backfill, compact, and resurface properly — or leave a cut that 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. Contractors who restore their cuts cleanly treat the bond as a permit formality — and we keep it active so a lapse never holds up your next permit.
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Five minutes. The whole thing.
These are the actual issuing fields — the application collects no credit information.
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 street cut permit today.
$100 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.