Prince William County, VA Soliciting & Door-to-Door: No-Knock Registry (2026)
Key Facts
- Curfew window
- Half-hour after sunset to half-hour after sunrise
- Exception
- Invited or scheduled appointments are exempt
- Must be printed
- On every Chapter 18 permit (Sec. 18-23)
- Penalty
- Class 2 misdemeanor (Sec. 18-3)
- Permit risk
- Revocation after notice and hearing (Sec. 18-27)
Summary
Prince William County bars peddlers, solicitors and itinerant vendors from knocking door-to-door between a half-hour after sunset and a half-hour after sunrise under Sec. 18-2.2, unless the resident invited or scheduled the visit. Every solicitor permit issued under Chapter 18 must print this nighttime restriction under Sec. 18-23.
No peddler, solicitor, or itinerant vendor shall conduct business door-to-door, except by invitation or appointment, from a half-hour after sunset to a half-hour after sunrise.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 46 Update 4).
Full Breakdown
Sec. " The half-hour buffers on each side track sunset and sunrise times that shift through the year, so the permitted calling window narrows in winter and widens in summer rather than running on a fixed clock. The "except by invitation or appointment" carve-out means a resident who has scheduled a specific visit, such as an evening estimate appointment, can still receive that caller after the cutoff without violating the section; the exception protects pre-arranged business, not unsolicited calling. Sec. 2," so a permitted solicitor is on notice of the curfew printed on the card he or she must carry under Sec.
18-24 and exhibit on request to police or the person being solicited. A violation of Sec. 2 falls under the general Chapter 18 violations section, Sec. 18-3, which makes any violation of the chapter a Class 2 misdemeanor, a step up from the Class 4 misdemeanor default used elsewhere in the county code. Repeated nighttime-solicitation complaints against a permit holder also expose the permit itself to revocation under Sec. 18-27, which lists "any violation of this chapter" as grounds for the chief of police to revoke after notice and a hearing.
Violations & Fines
Knocking door-to-door outside an invited or scheduled appointment between a half-hour after sunset and a half-hour after sunrise violates Sec. 18-2.2 and is a Class 2 misdemeanor under the Chapter 18 violations section, Sec. 18-3. A permit holder cited for nighttime solicitation also risks permit revocation by the chief of police under Sec. 18-27 after notice and a hearing.
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