Acworth, GA Soliciting & Door-to-Door: No-Knock Registry (2026)
Key Facts
- Posted sign
- "No soliciting" notice is an enforceable nuisance
- Registration
- Required before door-to-door sales, § 22-112
- Weekday hours barred
- 8:00 p.m.-9:00 a.m.
- Sunday hours allowed
- Roughly 1:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. only
- Enforcement
- Police dept. must suppress and abate
- Registration validity
- 30 days, fee-based
Summary
Posting a "Solicitors, peddlers, salesmen prohibited" sign at an Acworth home makes it a nuisance for any peddler, canvasser or door-to-door seller to come onto the property anyway, and the police department is directed to abate it. Door-to-door sales are also barred outright between 8:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m. on weekdays and most of the day on Sunday.
The practice by solicitors, peddlers, hawkers, itinerant merchants and transient vendors of merchandise of being in and upon private residences in the city without having been requested or invited to do so by the owners or occupants of such private residences, and contrary to a notice having substantially the following wording: "Solicitors, peddlers, salesmen prohibited," as displayed or posted upon, at or near the entrance to or upon the grounds of such private residences, for the purpose of soliciting orders for the sale of goods, wares and merchandise, and/or for the purpose of disposing of and/or peddling or hawking, is declared to be a nuisance. The chief of police and the city police department are required and directed to suppress and abate any such nuisance as is described in this section. ... It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in business as a canvasser or solicitor, calling at residences within the city for the purpose of soliciting orders, sales, subscriptions or business of any kind, without first having registered in the office of the city clerk. ... It shall be unlawful for any person to ... engage in the peddling of merchandise, canvassing or soliciting in person at any private residence within the city between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m., Monday—Saturday, and on Sunday between the hours of 12:00 midnight and 12:59 p.m., and 6:01 p.m. and 11:59 p.m.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 27).
Full Breakdown
" Section 22-112 separately requires anyone canvassing or soliciting orders, sales or subscriptions door-to-door to first register at the city clerk's office with their identification, employer, the products or services involved, and their planned method of operation. Section 22-113 makes clear that registering "in no way grants the right or a license to conduct the business of a peddler"; it only signals an intent to canvass "subject to, under the provisions of and in strict accordance with section 22-111," meaning a posted sign still overrides a valid registration.
Section 22-114 charges a registration fee set on the city's schedule of fees, valid for 30 days. m. open for Sunday solicitation. Section 22-118 requires canvassers and peddlers applying for a business license to be fingerprinted and photographed, and to carry and display an identification card on request.
Violations & Fines
A posted-notice violation under section 22-111 is treated as a nuisance the police department must suppress and abate, independent of any fine. Section 22-115 lets the mayor or chief of police temporarily suspend a peddler's registration for violating this article, any other city ordinance, or state or federal law, with permanent revocation or reinstatement decided by the board of aldermen after a hearing. Canvassing outside the hours fixed in section 22-117, or without the registration required by section 22-112, is separately unlawful and, absent a more specific penalty, falls under the city's general penalty in section 1-11.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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