Granville County, NC Soliciting & Door-to-Door: No-Knock Registry (2026)

Section 36-1 of the Granville County Code, adopted October 17, 2005 and amended September 5, 2017, regulates door-to-door selling of goods and services and solicitation by itinerant merchants, salesmen, promoters, drummers, peddlers and hawkers throughout the county. Subsection (d) sets the operative curfew: peddling or solicitation is prohibited between the hours of 5:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m. unless the solicitor has received prior express, oral or written permission from the person being solicited. This curfew applies on top of the separate letter-of-intent filing requirement in subsections (b) and (c), which every commercial door-to-door solicitor must satisfy before making any calls in the county.

Section 36-2 carves out an exception for any legally operated business located within the county continuing to operate on its own property in its customary fashion, so storefronts and home-based businesses transacting business at their own address are not swept into the curfew. Section 36-3 sets the penalty: a violation of Chapter 36 is a misdemeanor punishable as provided in G.S. 14-4, North Carolina's general misdemeanor penalty statute, rather than a locally set fine schedule. The county manager's office, which receives the letters of intent required under § 36-1(b), is the administrative point of enforcement contact for the curfew alongside the sheriff's office.