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Highland Park right-of-way bonds.
$100 flat.
Before the Town of Highland Park issues a right-of-way excavation permit, it requires the applicant to deposit a $10,000 surety bond payable to the Town on the Town's own form. Ours is $100 flat — the price you see is the checkout price. The bond issues the moment you pay — no credit check.
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Right-of-way permit bonds are the simplest thing in surety. Here's the entire process:
Apply online
Business details and an effective date. That is the application. No credit check.
Pay & e-sign
Small fixed-amount permit bonds like this issue right after purchase, most of the time.
File with Highland Park
Your executed bond arrives by email on the Town's form, ready to submit through the Town's online portal with your excavation permit application. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
Before the Town of Highland Park issues a permit to excavate in the public right-of-way, it requires the applicant to deposit a $10,000 surety bond payable to the Town, executed on the Town's own form. The bond is a restoration and public-safety guarantee: it backs your obligation to properly restore the right-of-way and to answer for injury or damage your work causes.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the Town of Highland Park (the obligee), with the Town and the public as the protected parties. Under the Town's terms, recovery on the bond for any one injury or accident does not exhaust it — the full amount covers all accidents or injuries during the term.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. Contractors who restore the right-of-way properly treat the bond as a permit formality, and we track the filing so your $10,000 bond stays in place for the permit term.
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Claims, renewal, filing, and what sets the price.
If a claim is made
A claim comes from the party the bond protects, the obligee named on the form, when the duty the bond guarantees is not met.
The surety investigates and pays a valid claim, up to the $10,000 bond amount. You then repay the surety: a surety bond is a guarantee of your performance, not insurance for you.
Renewal and term
The bond runs to January 1 whatever day you buy; the premium covers the period to that date.
Renewal falls on the statutory date, January 1, in the year your term ends.
Renew before the expiry date to keep the bond in force: the license, permit or contract it backs expects continuous coverage.
How to file it
File with Highland Park. Your executed bond arrives by email on the Town's form, ready to submit through the Town's online portal with your excavation permit application. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What sets the price
The premium is fixed at $100 at the $10,000 amount for every applicant: the carrier’s rate book prices this bond by the form, not by your credit or your business profile.
No credit check.
One application, issued instantly.
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$100 flat, no credit check, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.