Every permittee shall file with the City Manager a surety bond running to the city in the amount of $1,000. The bond shall be conditioned that the permittee shall comply fully with all the provisions of the code and ordinances of the city and the statutes of the state regulating peddlers, canvassers, solicitors, transient merchants, itinerant merchants or itinerant vendors, as the case may be, and shall guarantee to any citizen of the city that all money paid as a down payment will be accounted for and applied according to the representations of the permittee, and further guaranteeing to any citizen of the city doing business with the permittee that the property purchased will be delivered according to the representations of the permittee. Action on the bond may be brought by any person aggrieved and for whose benefit, among others, the bond is given, but the surety may, by paying, pursuant to order of the court, the face amount of the bond to the clerk of the court in which the suit is commenced, be relieved without costs of all further liability.
(1989 Code, § 9-206)