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 bond issues the moment you pay — no credit check.
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How much does a Swansea solicitor bond cost?
$100 at the $10,000 amount, the same for every applicant.
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 is the application. No credit check.
Pay & e-sign
Permit bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase.
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.
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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 $10,000 bond amount. You then repay the surety: a surety bond is a guarantee of your performance, not insurance for you.
Renewal and term
The premium covers a one-year term from the effective date you choose; a longer term is the same price per year, chosen at checkout.
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 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 sets the price
The premium is fixed at $100 at the $10,000 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 instantly.
These are the actual issuing fields. No credit check.
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$100 flat, no credit check, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.