Apple Valley, MN Soliciting & Door-to-Door: No-Knock Registry (2026)

Section 114.09 works through the property owner or tenant, not through a city list. The sign has to be at least four inches long and four inches wide, with print of at least 48 point, and it has to state "No Peddlers, Solicitors or Transient Merchants," or "Peddlers, Solicitors, and Transient Merchants Prohibited," or another comparable statement. Once the property is marked, a peddler, solicitor or transient merchant cannot enter it to do business unless the property owner or tenant invited them. Only the owner or tenant can remove, deface or tamper with the placard, and the section prints the cross-reference "Penalty, see § 10.99."

Section 114.08 sets the ground rules for anyone who is on the property. No peddler, solicitor or transient merchant can conduct business before 9:00 a.m. or after 9:00 p.m. None can call attention to the business by blowing a horn or whistle, ringing a bell, crying out, or any other noise unreasonably audible within an enclosed structure, obstruct vehicular or pedestrian traffic on a street, alley, sidewalk or other public right-of-way, or fail to provide proof of license or registration and identification when asked. Section 114.08(G) bars remaining on the property of another when requested to leave, and conducting business in a manner a reasonable person would find obscene, threatening, intimidating or abusive. No one can claim the endorsement of the city solely because the city issued a license or certificate of registration.

The chapter has limits. Under § 114.02(C) it does not apply to the mere distribution of flyers or other advertising material from house to house where personal contact is not made, and § 114.03(G)(2) exempts from licensing door-to-door activity that exercises constitutional rights such as speech, press or religion, unless that exercise is merely incidental to a commercial activity. A SOLICITOR under § 114.01 seeks orders for goods or services to be delivered or performed later, and the term means the same as CANVASSER. A TRANSIENT MERCHANT sets up temporarily and does not stay in one location for more than 14 consecutive days.