Antioch, CA Soliciting & Door-to-Door: No-Knock Registry (2026)

Antioch Municipal Code § 5-2.301 makes it "unlawful for any person to peddle or solicit on any premises within the city which are posted with a clearly visible sign bearing the words 'No Peddlers or Solicitors' or other words of the same purport or effect." The section traces to Ordinance 575-C-S, passed April 26, 1984, and sits in Title 5, Chapter 2, Article 3, alongside the chapter's separate rules for aircraft advertising (Article 1) and sound-truck advertising (Article 4). Antioch runs no formal do-not-knock registry maintained by the city or police; the posted sign itself is the entire legal mechanism.

Once a resident posts qualifying wording, any peddler or solicitor who then approaches that premises to sell goods, canvass, or solicit is in violation, regardless of whether the visitor is a commercial seller, a charity, or a political canvasser, since the statute names "any person" without carving out an exception. Substantially similar wording satisfies the section too; a homeowner is not limited to the exact quoted phrase, since the code also covers signs bearing "words of the same purport or effect." Enforcement flows through Antioch's citywide general penalty section, AMC § 1-2.01: violating any provision of the Antioch Municipal Code is a misdemeanor under Cal.

Gov't Code § 36900 unless the City Attorney exercises discretion to reduce the charge to an infraction, with a misdemeanor punished under Cal. Penal Code § 19 and an infraction punished under Penal Code § 19.6. Because the section stands apart from the city's business-licensing articles for peddlers elsewhere in the code, it operates purely as a property owner's opt-out: no registration with the Finance Department or police is required to invoke it, only the posted sign itself.