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Baltimore, MD — Street Permit Bond

Baltimore City distinguishes a builder's use of the street/sidewalk for materials from a street-cut permit. Confirm which City instrument this broad Street Permit offering must match; the two Code provisions do not establish identical scope, warranty or release.

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Recorded state
Maryland
Bond type
Right-of-Way / Street Work / Encroachment Bond
Category
Contractors & construction

What this bond does

Match Baltimore City's assigned street-use or street-cut security to the actual permit and accepted instrument.

Who needs it
The City-required builder or street-cut permittee/principal, with the performing contractor and actual permit holder correctly identified.
Who it protects
The applicable City form protects the named City against covered liabilities and public-way restoration loss. It does not establish permission to work or completion/payment protection for every private building contract.

Your bond option

This is the option on record for this bond.

The bond amount describes the limit of the bond obligation, not the price. A listed amount does not establish what the requesting party requires. The premium is what you pay and must be confirmed for the actual option. An E&O limit, where listed, is separate errors and omissions insurance.

Identify street occupation versus excavation

Article 26 §20-1 requires a builder's permit from Transportation for use of the street/sidewalk in front of its property. Section 20-2 allows a sufficient corporate surety bond protecting the Mayor and City Council against covered claims and damage from that use, including material-related paving/curb/sidewalk restoration.

Street-cut §15-12 separately requires performance security before permit issuance. Section 15-31 allows a performance bond, irrevocable letter of credit or cash, with Solicitor-approved form and Director-approved amount. Multi-permit security can cover one person's street cuts and may need increases for volume; do not assume every broad street offering covers both programmes.

Match the form and preserve the applicable warranty

Purchase Now opens Propeller; the option displays no fixed amount or term. Obtain Transportation's actual instrument assignment, legal principal/recipient, sum, covered permits and dates and match them with the issuer. Arrange execution and accepted filing before relying on issued work permission.

A street-cut permit has its own authorized start/end dates and is nontransferable. Its thirty-day not-started expiration condition is not an offered bond term. Section 15-30 starts the one-year workmanship/materials warranty after completed, inspected and approved work; a repair during warranty extends it one additional year beyond the original period.

For street cuts, §15-31 releases security after the warranty and correction of identified defects/violations. Keep the actual inspection/acceptance and continuation/release directions. Do not import that warranty wholesale into a builders' occupation instrument or treat a completed paving visit as automatic discharge.

Sources

Have these ready

  1. Actual City Transportation request, occupation/material storage versus excavation, work limits and required permittee/contractor.
  2. Confirmed offering-to-instrument match, named City recipient/principal, assigned sum, single/multi-permit coverage and dates.
  3. Accepted issuer execution/filing, actual plans/traffic/other permit conditions and issued permission.
  4. Applicable work completion/inspection/approval, warranty/repair extension and continued-security/release records.

Questions about this bond

Is a builders' street-use bond necessarily the street-cut instrument?

The Code treats those separately. Have Transportation and the issuer identify the actual accepted form and coverage for this broad listing.

Can street-cut security cover more than one permit?

Section 15-31 permits multi-permit security for one person and allows the Director to increase it for workload. Obtain the actual accepted coverage.

Does the street-cut warranty start at purchase?

Section 15-30 starts it after work is completed, inspected and approved, with an additional-year extension for warranty repair. It is not the option's offered duration.

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