Swansea solicitor bonds.
$100 flat.
The Village of Swansea, a St. Clair County community in the Metro-East region across the river from St. Louis, requires a door-to-door solicitor or peddler to file a $10,000 surety bond before the Village will issue a solicitor permit. Ours is $100 flat — the price you see is the checkout price. The bond issues the moment you pay — a soft credit pull at most, never a hard inquiry.
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Three steps. One sitting.
A village solicitor permit bond is about the simplest filing in surety. Here's the entire process:
Apply online
Business details and an effective date. That's the application — no financials, no credit section.
Pay & e-sign
Permit bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
File with the Village
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to file with Swansea Village Hall alongside your solicitor permit application. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
Swansea, like most Illinois villages, conditions its door-to-door solicitor and peddler permit on the applicant first posting a $10,000 surety bond with the Village. No permit is issued to an unbonded solicitor, and canvassing without one is a village-code violation.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the Village of Swansea (the obligee), with residents as the protected parties. If a permitted solicitor engages in fraudulent sales practices or otherwise violates the terms the permit is meant to police, a harmed resident or the Village can recover against the bond up to the $10,000 penal sum.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. The permit and the bond behind it typically run together, so keep your bond active for as long as you plan to solicit inside village limits.
You need this bond if you're
One application, issued instantly.
These are the actual issuing fields — no credit section, because this application doesn't collect credit information.
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$100 flat, soft pull only, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.