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South Carolina — Highway Permit - Performance Bond

Use the actual highway permit request to select this RLI performance offering. The page’s broad historical URL does not make it a general South Carolina contractor-license bond.

Also known as South Carolina License & Permit Bonds

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Recorded state
South Carolina
Bond type
Right-of-Way / Street Work Bond
Category
Contractors & construction

What this bond does

Arrange accepted performance security for the highway permit identified in the requesting road authority’s instructions.

Who needs it
Permit applicants with a South Carolina highway right-of-way performance-security request.
Who it protects
The accepted permit condition identifies the recipient and protected undertaking. Where SCDOT’s encroachment standard applies, security addresses permit compliance and covered damages rather than every obligation on a private construction project.

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.

Start with the permit and recipient

Bring the permit reference, special provisions, highway location, applicant and required form. Confirm whether the recipient is SCDOT or a local authority; a state designation in the offering is not permission to use one county’s condition elsewhere.

The existing purchase destination is RLI for Highway Permit - Performance. Have RLI compare the required condition before proceeding; do not select a generic license category merely because the retained URL contains license-permit-bonds.

Apply the SCDOT calculation only when relevant

For SCDOT encroachment permits, ARMS Section 2C describes discretionary bond/letter-of-credit security in the permit’s special provisions. The stated amount is 1.5 times estimated construction cost or $5,000, whichever is greater.

Have SCDOT establish the estimate and accepted instrument for its request. Qualifying county/local security may be considered, but it is not automatically interchangeable. This option supplies no fixed amount or term.

Submit security and obtain the permit

Give the provider the confirmed principal, recipient, condition, sum and dates. After issuance, follow the authority’s signature, attachment and filing requirements and obtain written work authorization.

For SCDOT security under the cited standard, release follows completion to the Department’s satisfaction. Neither checkout, a municipal approval nor the private job’s end independently establishes Department release.

Sources

Have these ready

  1. Actual highway permit, recipient, special provisions and accepted form.
  2. Applicant, road location, scope and applicable construction estimate.
  3. Requested sum, dates and execution/attachment/filing instructions for the RLI application.

Questions about this bond

Is this a general contractor-license bond page?

No. The retained offering is Highway Permit - Performance; match it to the actual road authority’s request.

Is the SCDOT amount a universal South Carolina amount?

No. It is the cited Department encroachment-security calculation, not a rule for all local permits.

Will RLI’s issued bond authorize work?

No. The authority must accept the security and issue the required permit separately.

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