Upper Arlington sewer builder bonds.
$275. Five minutes.
The City of Upper Arlington requires a sewer builder — anyone who taps or connects to the public sanitary sewer — to file a $5,000 surety bond with the city. Ours is $275 flat: 3% of $5,000 is $150, so this bond lands at our $275 minimum. The application is five minutes.
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Three steps. One sitting.
Sewer builder 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
Bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
File with Upper Arlington
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to file with the City of Upper Arlington before you start sewer work. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
The whole pricing page.
$5,000 bond × 3% = $150, which is below our $275 minimum, so the price is $275 per term. Fixed amount, fixed price, multi-year if you want it.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
The City of Upper Arlington controls who connects to its public sanitary sewer, and conditions sewer-builder work on a $5,000 surety bond filed with the city. A sewer builder is the contractor who makes the tap and lays the lateral that ties a property into the public main.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier standing behind you, and the City of Upper Arlington (the obligee). The bond guarantees you'll do the connection to the city's specifications and restore the street, right-of-way, or other public property you disturb while making the tap.
It is not insurance for you. If the city has to repair faulty sewer work or damaged public property and the surety pays, you repay the surety. Builders who follow the city specs treat the bond as a registration formality, not a risk.
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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.
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Connect to the Upper Arlington sewer today.
$275 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.