Chatham County, GA Soliciting & Door-to-Door: No-Knock Registry (2026)

Chatham County does not run a separate do-not-knock registry; instead it enforces the no-solicitation choice directly through the peddler and solicitor ordinance that covers transient and local peddlers and solicitors for charitable, religious, or subscription causes (Code Ch. 16, Art. IV). Sec. 16-314(5) bars a peddler or solicitor from entering a private residence, business, public building, or other premises under false pretenses, from remaining after the owner or occupant asks the peddler to leave, and separately from going onto premises at all once the owner or occupant has displayed a No Soliciting sign or similar sign.

The rule applies equally to for-profit peddlers, charitable and religious solicitors, and subscription solicitors covered elsewhere in the article. Sec. 16-314(9) lets any Chatham County Police Department officer or other authorized county officer direct a peddler or solicitor to correct a violation on the spot, and failure to comply with that directive is itself punishable. Sec. 16-314(8) separately requires every peddler and solicitor to display a valid county license or permit, or a copy of it, in a way the person being solicited can see, so a resident who wants to check legitimacy before invoking the sign rule can ask to see it.