Davenport bars door-to-door solicitation before 9 a.m. or after 6:30 p.m. on weekdays and Saturdays, and entirely on Sundays and national holidays. No one may solicit at a home posting notice that solicitors are not welcome.
Sec. 5.17.030 sets solicitation conduct rules that apply to everyone going door-to-door, including sellers otherwise exempt from licensing. No person may go door-to-door in a residential area before 9:00 a.m. or after 6:30 p.m. on any weekday or Saturday, and no one may solicit on Sundays or national holidays. It is a violation to solicit at any residence or business displaying a posted notice that peddlers, solicitors, or transient merchants are prohibited or not welcome — Davenport's version of a no-knock rule. Solicitors also may not shout or use sound amplification audible 50 feet away.
Soliciting outside permitted hours or in defiance of a posted no-solicitation notice is a municipal infraction; officers may cite violators, and the City may seize goods from a merchant operating unlawfully.
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