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Lynchburg peddler & solicitor permit bonds.
$100 flat.
The City of Lynchburg requires a $1,000 surety bond under City Code Sec. 29-24 from peddler’s permit applicants who live outside the city or represent a firm based outside Virginia. The permit, from the Chief of Police, covers selling door to door, canvassing and taking orders for future delivery. Ours is $100 flat for a term.
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The Chief of Police will not issue a peddler’s permit to a bonded applicant until the bond is on file, alongside the sworn application, fingerprints and fee. Here is the whole process:
Apply online
Apply online with your name or your company’s, your home and local addresses, and what you will be selling. Tell us whether the bond covers one permit holder or, under Sec. 29-24(b), every agent and canvasser your company sends into Lynchburg. $100 flat, no financials, no credit check.
Pay & e-sign
The $1,000 amount is fixed by the City Code and the price is fixed too, so most applications issue right after purchase.
File with the Chief of Police
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to file with the Lynchburg Police Department together with your sworn permit application.
What it is and who needs it.
What the Lynchburg solicitor bond guarantees
Chapter 29 of the Lynchburg City Code (Peddlers and Solicitors) makes it a class 2 misdemeanor to do business as a peddler in the city without a permit (Sec. 29-19). The code defines “peddler” broadly in Sec. 29-1: anyone traveling from place to place, house to house or street to street selling goods, or taking orders for goods to be delivered or services to be performed in the future — and it expressly includes the canvasser, the solicitor, the transient or itinerant merchant or vendor, and the transient or itinerant photographer.
Every permit applicant files a sworn application with the Chief of Police (Sec. 29-20), submits to fingerprinting (Sec. 29-23), goes through a police investigation of business and moral character that the Chief completes within two weeks (Sec. 29-26), and pays a nonrefundable $15.00 processing fee (Sec. 29-28). The bond is an additional requirement that falls only on applicants who are not Lynchburg residents, and on residents who represent a firm whose principal place of business is outside Virginia.
The bond does three things under Sec. 29-24(a). It guarantees you will comply with the City Code, city ordinances and state law on peddling. It guarantees to any Lynchburg citizen that money paid as a down payment will be accounted for and applied as you represented. And it guarantees that property a citizen buys from you will be delivered as you represented. A claim can be brought in the City’s name for the benefit of the person harmed, and before the permit issues you appoint the Chief of Police as your agent to accept service of any suit on the bond (Sec. 29-25).
It is a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety, and the City of Lynchburg (the obligee). If the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. This is not Virginia’s charitable-fundraising “professional solicitor” bond, which is a separate $20,000 bond filed with the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services under Code of Virginia § 57-61.
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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 $1,000 bond amount. You then repay the surety: a surety bond is a guarantee of your performance, not insurance for you.
Renewal and term
The term is set on the carrier’s application; the premium covers the period shown there.
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 Chief of Police. Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to file with the Lynchburg Police Department together with your sworn permit application.
What sets the price
The premium is fixed at $100 at the $1,000 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 — your details or your company’s, the Lynchburg permit you are applying for, and the effective date. No credit check.
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$100 flat, no credit check, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.