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Bay County, MI — Highway Permit - Operation And Maintenance Bond

For operation or maintenance of a facility in a Bay County road right-of-way, identify the facility operator and the permits covering the ongoing work. A utility company's annual blanket permit does not automatically authorize its subcontractor, and an annual permit is not a stated bond term.

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

What this bond does

Bay County Road Commission, Michigan security assigned to the permitted operation or maintenance of the identified right-of-way facility.

Who needs it
The facility operator or authorized applicant and its actual working contractor, with each required permit and responsible principal identified.
Who it protects
The accepted instrument concerns the specified Commission permit obligations and affected right-of-way. It is not a general operating licence or unlimited security for every future maintenance job.

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 the operator and the working contractor

The selected rules define ROW applicants to include those constructing, operating, using or maintaining a facility. A contractor applying for another entity must establish its authority or obtain the required authorized signature. State the facility, road limits and maintenance activities the request actually covers.

The current selected schedule requires utility-company crews and utility subcontractors to apply for yearly blanket permits. It expressly says subcontractors cannot operate under the utility company's blanket permit. Have the Commission identify each permit needed; one company's security on file is not permission for every other contractor.

Match ongoing work and release to the instrument

The Commission's selected Bond for Work in the Rights-of-Way names the Board of County Road Commissioners of Bay County and refers to specified permit obligations, with an assigned penal sum. Confirm the actual form and permits covered by the operation/maintenance request rather than assuming a blanket covers unlimited activities or fresh limits each year.

Purchase Now opens Propeller. The option displays no fixed amount or term. Give the issuer the Commission's form, operator/principal, Board recipient, assigned sum, coverage and dates. Arrange execution and accepted filing, and obtain the actual Oxcart permit or permits before work.

The general form separately guarantees construction/restoration defects for one calendar year after Commission acceptance and provides for Commission termination notices and notice concerning future acts. That guarantee is not a supplied annual operation-and-maintenance term. Have the Commission and issuer confirm continuation, any expiry entry and release for the ongoing facility work.

Sources

Have these ready

  1. Facility operator, county-road location/limits and actual operation/maintenance scope.
  2. Authorized applicant and performing contractor; each required utility or subcontractor blanket permit.
  3. Commission-selected form, permits covered, principal/Board recipient, aggregate sum, coverage and dates.
  4. Accepted filing, actual Oxcart permissions and continuing maintenance/inspection/termination directions.

Questions about this bond

May a subcontractor use the utility company's blanket permit?

The current selected schedule says utility subcontractors must apply for their own yearly blanket permit and cannot operate under the utility company's permit.

Does an annual permit establish a one-year bond term?

No. The option displays no fixed term. Confirm the required bond continuation and dates separately from the yearly work permit.

Is the form's one-year repair guarantee the whole maintenance obligation?

That clause addresses construction/restoration defects after Commission acceptance. It does not define all ongoing facility work or establish release of this operation/maintenance instrument.

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