Lubbock, TX Soliciting & Door-to-Door: No-Knock Registry (2026)

Lubbock's peddler and solicitor licensing division (City Code sections 8.12.031 through 8.12.043) requires anyone acting as a peddler, itinerant merchant or transient vendor within city limits to first obtain a license from the city manager under section 8.12.032. Layered on top of that licensing requirement is a separate no-knock protection in section 8.12.035(b): it is unlawful for any license holder to enter the land or premises of another after receiving notice, immediately before entry, from the owner, resident, occupant, or an adult person exercising possession, that entry is forbidden.

It is equally unlawful for a license holder to remain on the premises after being told to depart. The notice does not have to be in writing or filed with any city registry; a verbal statement from the resident or a posted refusal at the door is enough to trigger the prohibition once given directly to the solicitor. The provision only binds people who hold a peddler's or solicitor's license under this division; it does not create a separate city-run do-not-solicit list. The Lubbock Police Department enforces the peddler and solicitor division under section 8.12.034, and a violation is prosecuted as a misdemeanor in municipal court.

Beyond the criminal fine, section 8.12.035(d) makes revocation automatic on conviction: a license holder convicted under subsection (b) loses the peddler's and solicitor's license as a direct legal consequence of the conviction, not through a separate discretionary revocation hearing under section 8.12.056's general appeal process for other grounds. A revoked licensee whose permit is later cancelled for other reasons can appeal to the city's permit and license appeal board, but the automatic revocation tied to a subsection (b) conviction flows straight from the criminal judgment itself.