Commerce City, CO Soliciting & Door-to-Door: No-Knock Registry (2026)

Section 12-5005 of the Commerce City Revised Municipal Code bars anyone from entering or remaining on posted property to solicit sales, services, gifts, donations, votes, or any other support once a "No Solicitation" or "No Trespassing" sign sits at or near the entrance, unless the owner, agent, representative, or occupant has separately consented. The ordinance, adopted by Ord. No. 2184 on November 19, 2018, replaced an earlier version that regulated solicitations more broadly, and it expressly reaches charitable, civic, educational, recreational, fraternal, religious, and political solicitors, so a homeowner's posted sign stops campaign canvassers and fundraisers as surely as magazine or product sellers.

There is no citywide registry or permit scheme tied to this section; the rule turns entirely on whether the property carries a visible sign and whether the solicitor obtained prior permission despite it. Commerce City Police officers enforce the section on a complaint basis, typically after a resident reports a solicitor who ignored a posted sign or continued canvassing after being told to leave. Because Chapter 12 does not set a distinct penalty for this section, a violation falls under the Code's general penalty in section 1-5: a fine of up to three hundred dollars, up to ninety days in jail, or both, with the municipal court hearing the case.

Officers can also treat repeated refusals to leave after being asked as disorderly conduct or trespass under neighboring Article V sections. Residents who want the protection need only post a sign; no city registration of the sign itself is required, and there is no exemption carved out for uniformed nonprofit fundraisers or petition circulators.