Homestead, FL Soliciting & Door-to-Door: No-Knock Registry (2026)

City Code Chapter 23, Article II governs advertising and door-to-door distribution citywide. Section 23-20 sets the default rule: on inhabited private premises that are NOT posted, a person may leave a commercial or non-commercial handbill unless the occupant asks them not to, and only if the handbill is secured so it won't blow around the yard, street or sidewalk. Section 23-21 flips that default for any resident who posts a sign. Once a homeowner places a conspicuous sign near the entrance reading "No Trespassing," "No Peddlers or Agents," "No Advertisement," or similar language indicating the occupants do not want to be disturbed or have handbills left, no person may throw, deposit, or distribute a commercial or non-commercial handbill on that property at all.

The same protection applies even without a sign if the resident directly asks the distributor to stop (Sec. 23-20(a)). Separately, Sec. 23-19 bars leaving handbills on vacant or unoccupied premises altogether, and Sec. 23-18 bars affixing handbills to a parked vehicle without the owner's consent. S. Postal Service and newspapers are exempt from the handbill rules (Sec. 23-20(b)), though newspapers must still be placed so they aren't scattered by wind onto streets or sidewalks. Business owners get a narrow carve-out under Sec. 23-25: they may distribute commercial handbills inside the privately owned shopping center where their business sits, but only after filing the shopping center owner's written permission with the city, and they remain responsible for cleaning up any discarded handbills. Enforcement runs through the city's code enforcement department and code enforcement board, the same body that handles other Code violations under Chapter 7.