What are the Solicitation rules in the City of Charleston?
City of Charleston Municipal Code SEC. 26-36.
Any application for permission to solicit funds shall be accompanied by a fee of Ten Dollars ($10.00). Once permission to solicit is obtained, any person or organization other than a professional solicitor shall post a cash bond of Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00). Professional solicitors shall post a cash bond of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or ten percent (10%) of the total money, pledges, and other property to be raised or received by reason of solicitation activities, whichever is less, BUT IN NO EVENT LESS THAN Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00). Such cash bond shall be refunded to the person or organization; provided, that said person or organization shall, within forty-five (45) days after the completion of the fundraising campaign, notify the director with a financial report stressing the amount raised, expenses of the campaign and projected use of the proceeds raised.
Where multiple fundraising campaigns are conducted simultaneously by the same person or organization, the director may, in his discretion, not require a separate cash bond to be posted for each campaign. In no event, however, may all cash bond money posted by any person or organization be returned until all fundraising campaigns of that person or organization have been completed and the director has been so notified with a proper financial report.
The Application for permit to solicit funds can be found here.