Greenville County requires a $5,000 bond before it issues a right-of-way encroachment or work permit to build, cut, or place anything within a county right-of-way. Ours is $275 flat — the 3% minimum — with no credit check. This bond returns by mail, so apply early.
















Permit bonds like this are the simplest thing in surety. Here's the entire process:
Business details, the mailing address for the original, and an effective date. That's the application — no financials, no credit check section.
We e-deliver a copy the same day. Because Greenville County takes a wet-ink original, the executed bond is mailed — so apply early.
The wet-ink original arrives by mail, ready to file with your right-of-way encroachment / work permit application.
$5,000 bond × 3% = $150, below our $275 minimum, so the price is $275 per term. Fixed amount, fixed price, multi-year if you want it.
Greenville County requires a permit before anyone encroaches on, cuts, bores, or places work within a county right-of-way — and conditions that permit on a $5,000 surety bond. The bond runs to the County as obligee and guarantees you restore the right-of-way to County standards after the work.
It is a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety, and Greenville County (the obligee). If you leave an encroachment unrestored or the work fails and the County has to repair it, the County can recover its cost against the bond up to $5,000.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. Because the County takes a wet-ink original, the executed bond is mailed; we e-deliver a copy the same day. We issue it at a flat $275 with no credit check.
These are the actual issuing fields, including the mailing address for the original — no credit check section, because this bond doesn't have one.
Start the application →If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
$275 flat, five-minute application, copy e-delivered the same day. Free until issued.