La Habra, CA Soliciting & Door-to-Door: No-Knock Registry (2026)

Chapter 5.12, the city's handbill ordinance, defines private premises broadly to include any dwelling, house, building or other structure, and any yard, grounds, walk, driveway, porch, steps, vestibule, hallway, or mailbox belonging or appurtenant to it, plus any vacant lot. A commercial handbill covers printed matter advertising merchandise, a business, an admission-charging event, or anything predominantly an advertisement, while a noncommercial handbill is any other printed matter not meeting that definition. Section 5.12.040(A) is the operative no-solicitation rule: once an owner or occupant has posted a No Solicitation sign in plain view at the premises, depositing, placing, throwing, scattering or casting any commercial or noncommercial handbill there becomes unlawful, with the narrow exception of handing a handbill personally to someone present who is willing to accept it.

Section 5.12.040(B) adds that any handbill left on the premises consistent with subsection A must be secured so it will not blow or drift about the property or elsewhere. The chapter separately requires anyone distributing handbills for hire to obtain a handbill distributor's license from the director of finance under Section 5.12.060, and Section 5.12.030 makes it unlawful to deposit any handbill in a public place at all, regardless of signage. Together the sections give a posted No Solicitation sign direct legal force against handbill distributors, distinct from the separate door-to-door curfew that Section 5.04.100(E) applies to solicitors and canvassers.