Medford, OR Soliciting & Door-to-Door: No-Knock Registry (2026)

282, "Solicitation in Violation of Signs," gives homeowners and occupants a self-enforcing no-solicitation tool instead of a city-run do-not-knock registry. Any owner or occupant may post a sign at the residence's principal entrance reading "NO SOLICITORS" in letters at least one and one-half inches high. Once that sign is up, anyone who "solicits" at the residence commits a violation. The code defines "solicit" narrowly: going onto the premises of a private residence to sell anything of value without having been requested or invited to do so by an occupant.

That definition matters for enforcement, since a salesperson who was waved over or invited onto the porch is not covered, and door-to-door canvassers who are not selling anything (political campaigners, charitable canvassers without a sale) fall outside the section's reach. The rule was added by Ordinance No. 6241 in 1988 and amended in 2000 to update penalty cross-references. There is no citywide registry list solicitors must check before knocking; the sign itself is the notice, and it must be visible from the approach to the door to put a solicitor on notice. Because the ordinance sits in Chapter 5 (Offenses), enforcement runs through Medford Police Code Enforcement and municipal court rather than a business-licensing office.