Gilbert, AZ Soliciting & Door-to-Door: No-Knock Registry (2026)

Section 14-171 makes it unlawful for a transient merchant, in the course of business, to ring a doorbell or knock at any building displaying a sign reading 'No peddlers, no solicitors or canvassers, no transient merchants or no trespassing.' Section 14-172 extends the same protection to handbills and subscribed materials: it is unlawful to deposit, place, throw, scatter or cast a handbill for solicitation purposes on private property bearing one of those signs, and any handbill that is left must be secured so wind or weather cannot carry it onto a street, sidewalk or neighboring property; whoever's name appears on the handbill as the party being promoted is the responsible party for compliance, even if someone else physically distributed it.

Enforcement runs through Section 14-173: if a code compliance inspector finds a violation of Section 14-171 or 14-172, the inspector issues a written notice to the responsible party, and after three written notices for the same address within a one-year period, the responsible party is guilty of a civil sanction punishable by a fine of not less than $500.00. The Gilbert town prosecutor is authorized to file the complaint in Gilbert Municipal Court, and upon conviction a judge must order payment of at least $500.00 per count and cannot grant probation or suspend any part of that mandatory minimum fine. The one-year clock runs from the date the code compliance officer finds and cites the violation, not from the date of the underlying conduct.