Huntington Park, CA Soliciting & Door-to-Door: No-Knock Registry (2026)

Section 3-1.1814 of the Huntington Park Municipal Code is the City's no-knock rule. It works through a posted sign on the premises: a sign painted, affixed, or otherwise displayed to public view, containing the words "No Peddlers Permitted," "No Solicitors Permitted," or "No Agents Permitted," or words that otherwise purport to prohibit or indicate the occupant's objection to peddling or soliciting. The section does not mention a registry or list; the sign itself is the opt-out. A resident in the City of Huntington Park who posts one makes it unlawful for a peddler, or anyone pretending to be one, to ring the bell, knock, or try to gain admittance.

The rule sits in Article 18 of Title 3, Chapter 1. Section 3-1.1801 defines a peddler as anyone going from house to house, place to place, or street to street to sell, solicit, take orders, or make demonstrations, and it includes people who pass out commercial handbills or take commercial surveys on City sidewalks or streets. Section 3-1.1814 states that the prohibition applies to sidewalk vendors. Section 3-1.1802 requires every peddler and sidewalk vendor to hold a permit from the Director of Finance.

The article exempts certain people. Under § 3-1.1816, the provisions do not apply to licensed house-to-house food or milk routes, commercial salespeople for wholesale firms, newspaper and religious publication peddlers, natural persons soliciting their own personal services, ticket sellers for religious, charitable, or educational events, and certified blind persons, among others. Because the exemption removes them from the article, the sign rule in § 3-1.1814 is written for peddlers outside those categories.

Religious solicitation has a separate sign rule. Section 3-1.1920 limits permit holders to the hours between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m., bars solicitors under 14, and bars solicitation at any dwelling with a "No Solicitors" sign or similar indication that no contact is desired. Section 3-1.1814 itself sets no hours.