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

Chapter 21 of the Jacksonville Beach Code treats every door-to-door seller as a peddler. Section 21-1 defines a peddler as any person, resident or not, traveling from house to house or from street to street to sell or solicit for sale goods, wares, merchandise or services, and it expressly folds in the terms solicitor, transient or itinerant merchant or vendor, and transient or itinerant photographer. Agricultural products produced or processed in Florida fall outside that definition.

Three sections govern the front door. Section 21-4 makes it unlawful for a peddler to enter private premises posted with a sign stating "No Peddlers Allowed" or "No Solicitations Allowed" or other words to such effect, so a homeowner does not need an exact phrase. Section 21-3 covers the spoken version: a peddler who enters premises owned, leased or rented by another and refuses to leave after the owner, the occupant or an agent says to leave and not return is guilty of a misdemeanor. Section 21-6 sets the clock. No peddler can engage in business within the city between one-half hour before sunset and 8:00 a.m. the following morning, or at any time on Sundays, except by specific appointment with or invitation from the prospective customer.

The sign rule has a twin for paper. Section 3-19 bars leaving a handbill on premises that display "No Trespassing," "No Peddlers or Agents," "No Advertisement" or a similar notice, and the Code cross-references § 21-4 as the same provision for peddlers and solicitors. The sections quoted here create no registry or list of protected addresses. A resident protects the door by posting a sign or by telling the peddler to leave.

Peddlers also owe the public some paperwork. Section 21-21 requires a permit, and § 21-8 requires each peddler to give every person he does business with a card bearing the peddler's picture, name, address and the place where the business is conducted.