Cottonwood District contractor bonds.
$100 flat.
Cottonwood Improvement District issues a Contractor Permit to work on its wastewater collection system, and the permit is conditioned on a $5,000 Wastewater Collection System Contractor Permit Bond running to the District. Ours is $100 flat, and the price you see is the price at checkout. The application collects no credit information, and most applications approve instantly.
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Three steps. One sitting.
A district permit bond is about the simplest thing in surety. Here is the entire process:
Apply online
Company details and an effective date. That is the application — no financials, no credit section, no follow-up scavenger hunt.
Pay & e-sign
Permit bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, a business day or two.
File with the District
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to hand to Cottonwood Improvement District at 8620 Highland Drive in Sandy with your Contractor Permit paperwork. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the District bond actually guarantees
Cottonwood Improvement District is a local district of the State of Utah, organized in 1955 and headquartered at 8620 Highland Drive in Sandy. It collects and treats wastewater across roughly 22.5 square miles of Salt Lake County, taking in parts of Cottonwood Heights, Sandy, Murray, Midvale, Millcreek and Holladay along with unincorporated county ground. Utah's local districts are creatures of Title 17B of the Utah Code, and each one sets its own construction standards and permit conditions for work inside its system.
The District's own bond form names it as the Obligee and binds contractor and surety jointly and severally for a penal sum of $5,000, in consideration of the District issuing a Contractor Permit. The condition is two-part: fully comply with the District's rules and regulations concerning your work, and fully indemnify the District against any damage or loss occasioned by that work. Miss either and the District can claim; meet both and no claim can be made.
It is not insurance for you. If the surety pays, you repay the surety. Two practical details from the District's form are worth knowing before you buy: the surety's obligation is not cumulative from year to year and never exceeds the penal sum, and a surety may only walk away by giving the District 30 days advance notice — which is why lapses get noticed. Keep it live for as long as your permit is.
You need this bond if you are
One application, issued instantly.
These are the actual issuing fields — no credit section, because this application doesn't collect credit information.
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Finish the Contractor Permit today.
$100 flat, no credit section in the application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.