Los Angeles County, CA Soliciting & Door-to-Door: No-Knock Registry (2026)

Section 7.62.095 sets the hours for door-to-door sales in the unincorporated area of Los Angeles County. It binds any person engaged in the business of soliciting the retail sale of goods, wares, merchandise or services, and it binds that person's agents and employees individually, so a canvasser cannot point to the company that sent them. The ban applies at any premises in the unincorporated area, which takes in homes, apartments, shops and offices alike. Incorporated cities are outside its reach and answer to their own codes.

The only carve-out written into the section is a prearranged appointment. A visit the occupant has agreed to in advance sits outside the hour limits; an unannounced knock does not. The Chapter 7.62 definitions cover only the terms peddler, commercial vehicle and patriotic emblem, so the code does not define the appointment any further.

The clock has two settings. Under Subsection A, soliciting is prohibited between 8:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m., which leaves a 12-hour lawful window from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Under Subsection B, while Daylight Saving Time is in effect under the Federal Uniform Time Act, as amended, the evening cutoff moves to 8:30 p.m. That stretches the window to 12.5 hours, and the 8:00 a.m. start stays the same. The section was adopted by Ordinance 89-0017 in 1989 and amended by Ordinance 2008-0013 in 2008.

Hours are only one layer. Section 7.62.090 requires anyone in the business of soliciting retail sales for future delivery to procure a license and pay the fee set in Section 7.14.010. An employer or contracting principal can take out a principal's solicitor's license under Section 7.62.080, but the tax collector will not issue it until the applicant files a list of every solicitor and signs an agreement to report each change in personnel in writing within five days. Section 7.62.100 spares a person who solicits only as an incident to a business already licensed under the chapter. Section 7.62.050 lifts the whole chapter for charitable sales that comply with Chapter 7.24, for farmers selling farm products they produced, and for interstate peddlers who solicit orders for merchandise to be shipped into the State later.