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Hutto right-of-way bonds.
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Utility and telecom providers working in Hutto, Texas rights-of-way register with the City every year, and the registration must carry performance, payment and maintenance bonds sized to the estimated cost to restore the right-of-way for that year's work. A surety specialist returns your quote, usually within one business day.
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Hutto will not treat a right-of-way registration as complete until the bonds are attached. Here is the whole process, from scope to filed registration:
Send us the year's scope
Apply online with your business details and the bond amount — the estimated cost to restore the Hutto right-of-way for the work you expect to perform in the coming year. If the City has already accepted a figure, use that one.
A surety specialist underwrites it
A specialist reviews the amount and the kind of work — boring, trenching, pole or pedestal sets, pavement cuts — and returns your exact premium for approval. Larger annual programs may be asked for more detail before the quote.
Pay, e-sign & register with Hutto
Once you accept the quote and pay, the executed bond arrives by email, ready to attach to your Public Service Provider or Right of Way Contractor registration. The City's contractor form records each bond's number and date.
What it is and who needs it.
What the Hutto right-of-way bonds guarantee
Hutto manages every excavation and installation in its public rights-of-way through Article 18.03 (Right-of-Way Management) of its Code of Ordinances, amended by Ordinance O-2025-004 in January 2025. Section 18.03.052 requires each public service provider — energy, telecom, cable, water, stormwater and wastewater utilities, including network providers — to register with the City every year, and the registration must include proof of insurance and appropriate bonds. All authorized contractors of a provider must be registered too.
The code actually calls for three annual bonds, each in the amount of the estimated cost to restore the right-of-way for the year's anticipated work. The performance bond is conditioned on faithful performance of the work; the payment bond on paying everyone who supplies labor or materials; and the maintenance bond guarantees the work for two years from its completion. Each must be written by a surety authorized in Texas and acceptable to the City. You are the principal, the surety guarantees your obligation, and the City of Hutto is the obligee.
Several alternatives are written into the same section. A provider's contractor may furnish the bonds in the provider's place; escrowed funds or a letter of credit acceptable to the City may stand in for the maintenance bond; a current franchise or license that already covers bonding satisfies the requirement; and the City must grant a waiver, within 30 days of a written request, to a provider with at least four years of Hutto right-of-way work free of unsatisfied damage claims. It is not insurance for you: if the surety pays the City to finish or repair your work, you repay the surety.
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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 bond amount. You then repay the surety: a surety bond is a guarantee of your performance, not insurance for you.
Renewal and term
Term and renewal are set in the underwriter's quote.
Keep the bond in force for as long as the obligation behind it runs.
How to file it
Pay, e-sign & register with Hutto. Once you accept the quote and pay, the executed bond arrives by email, ready to attach to your Public Service Provider or Right of Way Contractor registration. The City's contractor form records each bond's number and date.
What sets the price
This bond is underwritten: the premium is quoted from the bond amount and your financial picture, so there is no flat price to show.
One application, one specialist review.
These are the actual issuing fields — your business details, the bond amount, and the effective date. There is no credit section on this bond. Submit once and a surety specialist returns your exact price, typically within one business day. Free until your bond is issued.
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Get the Hutto right-of-way bond off your registration checklist.
Send us your scope and bond amount, and a surety specialist returns your price, typically within one business day. Free until issued.