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Soliciting & Door-to-Door in San Clemente, CA (2026)

2 verified soliciting & door-to-door rules for San Clemente, California, sourced directly from the municipal code and official government pages.

Verified from official government sources

Solicitor Permits

San Clemente requires every door-to-door solicitor, canvasser, or peddler to obtain a solicitor's business license from the License Collector before working the city's streets. Solicitors may call at private homes unless the resident has posted a "No Soliciting" sign, and a separate section confines canvassing to daylight hours between sunrise and sunset.

San Clemente Solicitor and Peddler Permit

Some Restrictions

San Clemente Municipal Code § 5.08.040(B)

2.Solicitors, peddlers, canvassers, demonstrators or sales persons' activities shall be confined to business establishments within the City; except, such persons may call upon private residences unless such a private residence shall have posted a sign which substantively reads as follows: "No Soliciting."3.All solicitors, canvassers or peddlers must first obtain a solicitor's business license f...

No-Knock Registry

San Clemente limits door-to-door soliciting to daylight hours only: no one may solicit orders, peddle, canvass, or hawk goods on private property except between sunrise and sunset. Any property posted with a 'No Soliciting' sign is off-limits to solicitors at any hour, giving residents a simple way to opt out entirely.

San Clemente Door-to-Door Soliciting Hours

Light Restrictions

San Clemente Municipal Code § 9.04.040

No person shall enter upon private property for the purpose of soliciting orders for the sale of goods, wares, merchandise, services, and building and loan stocker accounts or for the purpose of disposing of, peddling, demonstrating, canvassing, advertising, or hawking the same, except during the hours between sunrise and sunset. Furthermore, no person shall so solicit upon any private property...

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Soliciting & Door-to-Door in Orange County