Catoosa County, GA Soliciting & Door-to-Door: No-Knock Registry (2026)

Sec. 19-46 of the Catoosa County Code sets the hours during which door-to-door solicitation and canvassing are off-limits in the unincorporated county. Subsection (a) makes it unlawful to solicit or canvass between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m., and subsection (b) separately bars solicitation on Sunday or any recognized holiday. Both bans carry the same escape valve: they do not apply if the owner or occupant of the property being visited specifically requested or invited the solicitor to come at that time. The ordinance backs the hours restriction with an on-the-spot refusal right in Sec.

19-47: any person soliciting or canvassing lawfully under Article III must, upon the request of any owner or occupant, immediately leave the residence or place of business of that owner or occupant. There is no county-run do-not-knock registry that a resident signs up for in advance; the mechanism here is a direct verbal request at the door, and the solicitor has to comply the moment it is made regardless of whether the visit started inside permitted hours. Because Sec. 19-46 and Sec. 19-47 sit inside the same Article III that defines solicitors and canvassers in Sec.

19-43 and sets the licensing and penalty scheme in Sec. 19-49, a violation of either the hours limit or a leave request is prosecuted the same way as any other solicitor's-article violation: as a misdemeanor with a $250 to $1,000 fine and up to 60 days in jail, with each day of continued noncompliance treated as its own offense.