Murray City excavation bonds.
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Before you dig or cut pavement in a Murray City, Utah street or right-of-way, you need a Public Works permit and a surety bond on the City’s own form. The City requires a $10,000 bond, continuous until cancelled, so one bond covers all of your Murray permits. A surety specialist returns your price, usually within one business day.
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How much does a Murray City excavation bond cost?
It is underwritten: the premium is quoted from the bond amount and your financial picture, so there is no flat price to show.
Built around your Murray excavation permit.
Murray Public Works will not issue an excavation / encroachment permit until the bond is on file with the Engineering Division. Here is the whole process, from quote to permit:
Send us your business details
Apply online with your business name, address, entity type, and the bond amount the City requires. There is no credit section and no SSN field on this application.
A surety specialist prices it
The City already publishes the $10,000 amount, so the review is about writing the bond on Murray’s form, not about sizing. A specialist confirms your exact premium and sends it back for approval.
Pay, sign & file with Engineering
Once you accept and pay, we execute the bond on Murray City’s Excavation Bond form with the notarized attorney-in-fact affidavit and power of attorney attached. The City accepts original copies only — no faxes — so the signed original goes to the Engineering Division with your permit application.
What it is and who needs it.
What the Murray excavation bond guarantees
Murray City controls every cut into its streets through Chapter 12.16 of the Murray City Code. Section 12.16.020(A) makes it unlawful for anyone who is not a Public Works employee to make an excavation or road cut in a public street, lane or alley, or to remove pavement, without a permit from the Public Works Department. The application is filed with the department’s Engineering Division, and the City applies the same permit to encroachment work in unpaved right-of-way.
Every applicant must file a surety bond that guarantees the excavated street or right-of-way is restored or repaired to City specifications — or, if the City does the repair, that the City is reimbursed for that work. The bond also carries a three-year guarantee of materials and workmanship from completion of the work. It is a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and Murray City (the obligee). The form and the surety are both subject to City approval, and the City requires its own Excavation Bond form.
The City publishes the amount as $10,000, continuous until cancelled — one bond stands behind every excavation you make in Murray’s public way under the permits the City approves, rather than one bond per job. Its permit page adds that additional bonding may be required when a job’s scope exceeds the $10,000 amount. It is not insurance for you: if the surety pays the City to restore a trench or patch you left, you repay the surety. The permit also requires a Utah contractor license, a certificate of liability insurance naming the City, and a traffic control plan.
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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, sign & file with Engineering. Once you accept and pay, we execute the bond on Murray City’s Excavation Bond form with the notarized attorney-in-fact affidavit and power of attorney attached. The City accepts original copies only — no faxes — so the signed original goes to the Engineering Division with your permit application.
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, entity type, contact, and the bond amount Murray City requires. 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 Murray excavation bond off your permit checklist.
Send us your business details, and a surety specialist returns your price on Murray City’s bond form, typically within one business day. Free until issued.