Maple Grove, MN Soliciting & Door-to-Door: No-Knock Registry (2026)
Key Facts
- No-Soliciting signs
- Legally binding on solicitors
- Allowed hours
- 9:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m. only
- Sign tampering
- Misdemeanor to deface or remove
- Enforcement
- City nuisance violation, Sec. 10-335
Summary
Maple Grove makes it an enforceable nuisance for any peddler, solicitor, canvasser, or fundraiser to approach a home displaying a 'No Solicitors' or 'No Soliciting' sign, on top of a citywide 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. window for all door-to-door activity.
(a)Prohibited acts. It is unlawful for a peddler, solicitor, commercial canvasser, professional fundraiser or transient merchant to conduct business in any of the following manners:(1)The practice of going in and upon private premises in the city whose owners or occupants have placed upon or near the usual entrance thereto a sign bearing the notice "No Solicitors" or "No Soliciting" or words similar thereto or upon private premises whose owners or occupants have not requested or invited them to do so, is hereby declared to be a nuisance.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 6 Update 1).
Full Breakdown
Sec. 10-335(a)(1) declares it a nuisance for a peddler, solicitor, commercial canvasser, professional fundraiser, or transient merchant to go onto private premises where the owner has posted a 'No Solicitors' or 'No Soliciting' sign, or where the owner has not invited them. The same section bars soliciting between 7:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m., refusing to leave when asked, and continuing to offer goods after being told no. Anyone who defaces or removes another resident's posted no-soliciting sign is separately guilty of a misdemeanor under subsection (c).
Violations & Fines
Approaching a posted 'No Soliciting' residence, soliciting outside 9:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m., or refusing to leave when asked is a misdemeanor nuisance violation under Sec. 10-335(b), punishable per Sec. 1-13.
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