(A) Before any license as provided in this chapter shall be issued for engaging in the business of peddler, solicitor, canvasser or transient merchant, as defined in this chapter, every applicant, plying his or her trade as an individual, shall file with the Town Clerk a surety bond running to the town in the amount of $1,000. Every business, firm, company or corporation, which has employees or agents acting in the capacity of peddler, solicitor, canvasser or transient merchant, shall file with the Town Clerk a blanket surety bond covering all those employees or agents and running to the town in the amount of $5,000.
(B) Every bond for those engaging in a transient or an itinerant business or as a peddler, solicitor or canvasser as defined in this chapter shall be executed by the applicant as principal with at least one surety upon which service of process may be made in this state. The bond shall be approved by the Town Attorney, conditioned that the applicant and all of the applicant’s agents and employees shall comply fully with all of the provisions of the laws of the town and the state statutes regulating and concerning the sale of goods, wares and merchandise and will pay all judgments rendered against the applicant for any violation, together with all judgments and costs that may be recovered against him or her by any person for damage arising out of any misrepresentation or deception practiced on any person transacting any business with the applicant, whether the misrepresentations or deceptions were made or practiced by the applicant or its agents or employees, either at the time of making a sale or through any advertising of any nature whatsoever, printed or circulated with reference to the goods, wares, merchandise sold or any part thereof. In addition, if the applicant is a solicitor or canvasser, the bond shall be conditioned that the applicant and all of the applicant’s agents and employees shall comply fully with all of the provisions of the laws of the town and the state statutes regulating and concerning the business of solicitor or canvasser and guaranteeing to any citizen of the town that all money paid as a down payment will be accounted for and applied according to the representations of the solicitor or canvasser, and further guaranteeing any citizen of the town, doing business with the solicitor or canvasser, that the property purchased will be delivered according to the representations of the solicitor or canvasser.
(C) Action on the bond may be brought in the name of the town to the use of the aggrieved person or directly by the aggrieved person.
(1991 Code, § 8-2-6) (Ord. 54, passed 8-20-1984)