Massillon street opening bonds.
$100 flat.
The City of Massillon requires a $10,000 bond to pull a street opening permit — when you cut, excavate, or open a city street or right-of-way. Ours is $100 flat — the price you see is the checkout price, identical for everyone. The bond issues the moment you pay — no credit review of any kind, not even a soft pull.
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Three steps. One sitting.
Street opening permit bonds are the simplest thing in surety. Here's the entire process:
Apply online
Business details, your fax number for the principal, and an effective date. That's the application — no financials, the application 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 the City of Massillon
Your executed bond arrives by email, ready to file with your street opening permit at the City of Massillon's engineering department. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
A street opening permit bond is a right-of-way restoration guarantee. When you open, cut, or excavate a City of Massillon street to lay a utility line, make a tap, or do other work, the City wants assurance the pavement and right-of-way are properly restored.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the City of Massillon (the obligee). If you fail to backfill, repave, or restore the street to the City's specifications, the City can recover the cost of doing it against the $10,000 bond.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. Contractors who restore the right-of-way to spec treat the bond as a permit formality, not a risk.
You need this bond if you are
One application, issued instantly.
These are the actual issuing fields — the application collects no credit information, because this bond doesn't need it.
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Pull your Massillon permit today.
$100 flat, no credit review, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.