City of Cody right-of-way permit bonds.
$250 flat.
Before you dig in, block, or store materials on a street, alley, or utility easement in Cody, Wyoming, the City of Cody Public Works Department requires an encroachment permit, and it will not issue one until you show a $25,000 license or permit bond bound unto the City of Cody. Ours is $250 flat for a term.
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How much does a City of Cody right-of-way permit bond cost?
$250 at the $25,000 amount, the same for every applicant.
Built around your Cody encroachment permit.
Cody Public Works will not approve an encroachment permit until the bond and your insurance are in place, and you may not begin work until the permit is approved. Here is the whole process, from application to permit:
Apply online
Apply online with your business name, address, entity type, contact, and a short description of the work you will do in the right-of-way. No credit check.
Pay & e-sign
The City already publishes the $25,000 amount and the price is fixed at $250, so there is no review to wait on.
File with Public Works
Once you accept and pay, we issue the executed bond with the power of attorney attached. Submit it to the Public Works Department at Cody City Hall — in person or by email — with your permit application, traffic control plan, signed conditions page, and certificate of insurance.
What it is and who needs it.
What the Cody right-of-way bond guarantees
The City of Cody controls work in its streets through Title 7 of the Cody City Code. Section 7-2-1 bars anyone from making an excavation, or digging any hole, drain or ditch, in a street, sidewalk, alley or other public grounds without the written consent of the street commissioner, and § 7-2-2 makes the excavator responsible for replacing the excavation in its original condition, to City specifications, within the time the permit fixes. In practice that consent is the encroachment permit issued by the City of Cody Public Works Department, whose Streets Division reviews every application.
The permit package sets the eligibility rule in plain terms: no one may receive a permit to work in any public right-of-way unless they are an employee of an approved utility operating under a City franchise agreement, or they provide proof of $1,000,000 commercial general liability insurance and a license and/or permit bond bound unto the City of Cody in the amount of $25,000. One permit covers three kinds of work — storage of brick, timber, lumber or landscaping materials in the street, obstruction of a street or alley with cranes, equipment or tree-trimming crews, and excavation in a street, alley or public utility easement for service connections, driveways, sidewalks and landscaping.
It is a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the City of Cody (the obligee). Under the permit you agree to restore the right-of-way to City specifications, to give a two-year warranty on the area you resurface, and to pay the City $750 plus actual costs if it has to make the repair for you. The bond is not insurance for you: if the surety pays the City on a claim, you repay the surety. Cody’s contractor license carries no bond of its own, so most applicants file this as a stand-alone permit bond.
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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 $25,000 bond amount. You then repay the surety: a surety bond is a guarantee of your performance, not insurance for you.
Renewal and term
The term is set on the carrier’s application; the premium covers the period shown there.
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 Public Works. Once you accept and pay, we issue the executed bond with the power of attorney attached. Submit it to the Public Works Department at Cody City Hall — in person or by email — with your permit application, traffic control plan, signed conditions page, and certificate of insurance.
What sets the price
The premium is fixed at $250 at the $25,000 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 fast.
These are the actual issuing fields — your business details, entity type, contact, and a description of the work you will do in the City of Cody right-of-way. No credit check.
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Get the Cody right-of-way bond off your permit checklist.
$250 flat, no credit check, bond often issued the same day. Free until issued.