Monterey, CA Soliciting & Door-to-Door: No-Knock Registry (2026)

Section 22-19, part of Chapter 22's Offenses/Nuisances article, regulates door-to-door commercial activity on residential property in two distinct ways. First, it bars any solicitor, peddler, hawker, itinerant vendor or merchant, canvasser, or transient vendor from entering residential property to solicit orders for or sell goods, wares, merchandise, or services, including magazine or book subscriptions, if the property visibly displays a notice prohibiting soliciting or peddling; posting a 'no soliciting' sign is therefore sufficient by itself to make entry for a sales pitch unlawful, without any need for the resident to also tell the solicitor to leave.

Second, and independent of any posted notice, the section bans all door-to-door soliciting or peddling during the hours from sunset to sunrise, so even a residence with no sign posted cannot lawfully be approached by a solicitor after dark. The ordinance dates to Ordinance 3319, adopted in April 2003, and predates the more detailed 'Aggressive Solicitation and Prohibited Solicitations' provisions found earlier in the same chapter at § 22-4, which address different conduct such as solicitation near ATMs and aggressive panhandling rather than commercial door-to-door sales. 06's general misdemeanor and infraction scheme, and Monterey Police Department officers are the enforcing authority for reported violations.