Longmont, CO Soliciting & Door-to-Door: No-Knock Registry (2026)

Chapter 6.76 defines "soliciting from a private residence" as "to enter upon the residential property of another or, in the event of an apartment or condominium complex having a common entrance hall or walkway, to knock or activate a bell or other mechanical device to any residential unit therein" (§ 6.76.010). A "solicitor" is any person, city resident or not, "who solicits for the purchase or sale of goods or services of any nature whatsoever from any private residence" (§ 6.76.010).

Section 6.76.020 bars a solicitor, or anyone who sends an agent or employee to solicit, from approaching a residence carrying a posted "No Solicitors" or "No Soliciting" sign. A separate provision, § 6.76.030, applies even without a sign: it is "unlawful for a solicitor to remain and refuse to leave immediately... the private residential property or residential unit of another, after being requested by the owner or other person having the right to occupy such residence to leave, whether or not any 'No Solicitors' or 'No Soliciting' signs have been displayed." Together the two sections give a resident two independent tools: a posted sign that pre-emptively bars entry, and a verbal request to leave that works even for homes without a sign.

Both sections trace to the city's 1981 code (Code 1981, § 5-16-2), carried forward unchanged through the 1993 and 2009 recodifications, so the rule has been continuously in force for decades. Enforcement runs through Longmont's municipal court rather than a civil licensing process.