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

Section 14-116, adopted by Ord. No. 90-138 in 1990 and carried into Article VI, Division 3, requires every solicitor or canvasser, commercial or noncommercial, entering a residential property in the City of Lauderhill to walk from the road right-of-way directly to the front or main entrance and check for a posted notice before knocking or ringing the bell. If a "No Soliciting" or "No Solicitation Invited" sign is posted, the solicitor must immediately and peacefully leave and cannot leave behind any documents or literature; entering a side or rear yard without an express invitation from the occupant is separately barred.

Subsection (d) declares it unlawful, and a trespass, to ring a doorbell or make a sound to attract a resident's attention in defiance of a posted sign, or to fail to leave immediately when an occupant asks a solicitor to go. The sign itself must meet a physical standard set in subsection (e): it must be posted near the front door or doorbell, made of a durable material such as plastic, metal or wood, with letters at least three-quarters of an inch tall, and capable of being affixed to the door or nearby surface.

The section covers commercial and noncommercial solicitation and canvassing alike, so political and charitable canvassers must also honor a posted sign. A conviction under Section 14-116 carries a fine of not less than $25 and not more than $500 for each offense, a wider range than the flat $500 cap used in most of Chapter 14's other offense sections.