When a telecommunications provider places or maintains facilities in the City of Canton’s public rights-of-way, the City conditions that access on a surety bond. The City sets the amount; pricing is 0.5% of your bond amount, $100 minimum — enter the figure on your permit or franchise and your exact price appears at the application.
















No underwriting queue for the standard Canton telecom bond — enter your amount, pay, and file with the City. Here is the whole thing:
Your business details, the bond amount the City required, and the effective date — that is the entire application.
The application collects no credit information, and most bonds are issued as soon as you pay.
Submit the executed bond with your right-of-way permit or franchise paperwork at City Hall. Wet-ink originals mailed whenever the City insists on them.
The City of Canton, the county seat of Van Zandt County, controls who places cable, conduit and other telecommunications facilities in its streets and public ways. Like most Texas cities, it conditions that access on a permit or franchise — and a surety bond standing behind the work.
The bond is a restoration-and-compliance guarantee: it protects the City if a provider damages pavement, fails to restore a street cut, or leaves its facilities in a way that the City has to fix. The City — the obligee — can recover against the bond for that work.
It is a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the City of Canton. It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays the City, you repay the surety. Providers who restore the right-of-way cleanly treat it as a permit formality.
Submit the application with the bond amount the City of Canton set — the executed bond is generated instantly, ready to file.
Start the application →Pricing from $100. Enter the amount the City required and file the same day.