Marion, OH Soliciting & Door-to-Door: No-Knock Registry (2026)

Two rules in Chapter 750 of the Marion Codified Ordinances control when and where a registered solicitor can knock. Section 750.11 sets the hours: all soliciting, canvassing or peddling done under a registration must fall between 9:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. on weekdays, including Saturday, and none can be done on Sundays. The section was amended by Ord. 2001-82 in June 2001.

Section 750.12 adds the city's no-solicitation list. Before beginning to solicit, peddle or canvass, every solicitor, peddler and canvasser must obtain the Safety/Service Director's office's Prohibited Address' Listing. They cannot solicit, peddle, sell, attempt to sell or explain a cause to anyone at an address on that listing, and they cannot enter the listed premises for any of those purposes. The section was amended by Ord. 2001-122 in October 2001. The listing is a document held by the Safety/Service Director, and Chapter 750 prints no procedure for adding an address to it, so a resident who wants an address listed has to ask that office.

These limits sit on top of the registration requirement in § 750.02, the $7.50 fee and six-month registration term in § 750.04, and the identification card that § 750.05 requires solicitors to wear on the outer apparel. Section 750.01 sets who is covered: individuals who go from place to place or house to house selling goods or services or taking orders. It does not apply to minors under 16 years, local newspaper delivery, food products under the City Board of Health, telephone company services, or sales exclusively to commercial or industrial enterprises. The chapter's cross-reference on trespassing points to § 642.12.