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

Chapter 5.48 of the Cathedral City Municipal Code governs door-to-door selling. Section 5.48.010 defines a peddler as a person who travels by foot from door to door, house to house, place to place or business to business offering or selling goods, or who sells from any vehicle. Section 5.48.030 makes it unlawful to peddle in the city without a valid permit from the authority, meaning the city manager or designee, and § 5.48.050 requires the authority to grant the permit within fifteen days after receiving a completed application if the listed requirements are met. A permit is valid for one year and is not transferable (§ 5.48.080). Under § 3.28.400 the business license fee for Peddlers or Solicitors is two hundred fifty dollars per year, and a sales representative who solicits only by previous appointment pays fifteen dollars per year.

The sign rule is § 5.48.120. It is unlawful and a public nuisance for a permittee to ring the bell upon or near any door, or create any sound calculated to attract the occupant's attention, at a property that displays a sign saying "No Peddlers," "No Solicitors," or "No Agents," or one that otherwise purports to prohibit peddling or soliciting. The one exception is a permittee who has an appointment with an occupant. Under paragraph C, a permittee cannot refuse to leave a residence, dwelling, apartment or other private property when the owner, occupant, resident, manager or person in control asks.

Hours and noise are set separately. Section 5.48.100 makes it unlawful and a public nuisance to peddle before nine a.m. or after eight p.m. on any day of the week unless the permit is otherwise conditioned. Section 5.48.110 bars record players, tapes, radios and continuous noisemakers such as bells, chimes, gongs, whistles and sirens while conducting business. Under § 5.48.070 a permittee must carry the permit, wear an identification badge with the picture facing outward, and show both on demand of any person solicited. Handbills have their own sign rule: § 5.20.070 bars leaving a handbill at premises posted "NO TRESPASSING," "NO PEDDLERS OR AGENTS," "NO ADVERTISEMENT" or a similar notice.