Soliciting & Door-to-Door in Rapides Parish, LA (2026)
2 rules for unincorporated Rapides Parish, Louisiana.
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Solicitor Permits
Door-to-door peddlers in unincorporated Rapides Parish must buy a $200 license before working the parish, with a discounted $100 license for itinerant sellers of farm produce or seafood they harvested or bought directly from fishermen.
Rapides Parish Peddler's License Requirement
Some RestrictionsRapides Parish Code § 23-5
(a)Except as provided in paragraph (b), all peddlers, defined by Louisiana Revised Statutes, Title 47, Section 342(8), shall obtain a license costing two hundred dollars ($200.00).(b)Itinerant vendors of agricultural products, purchased directly from farmers or an itinerant vendor of seafood products who has either harvested the seafood himself or has purchased the seafood directly from commerc...
No-Knock Registry
Rapides Parish Police Jury bars solicitors, peddlers, hawkers and itinerant merchants from going door to door on private homes in the unincorporated parish unless the owner or occupant invited them first. Sec. 19-15 declares uninvited soliciting a public nuisance and a misdemeanor, with narrow carve-outs for farm produce sellers and franchised cable salesmen.
Uninvited Home Solicitation Ban in Rapides Parish
Heavy RestrictionsRapides Parish Code § 19-15
The practice of going in and upon private residences in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, by solicitors, peddlers, hawkers, itinerant merchants or transient vendors of merchandise not having been requested or invited to do so by the owner or occupant of such private residences for the purpose of soliciting orders for the sale of goods, wares and merchandise or disposing of or peddling or hawking the s...
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