Nashville, TN Soliciting & Door-to-Door: No-Knock Registry (2026)
Key Facts
- Registration length
- 2 years
- Takes effect
- 30 days after filing
- Permitted hours
- Sunrise to sunset or 7 p.m.
- Penalty
- $50 per day per violation
- Exempt groups
- Religious, charitable organizations
Summary
Residents can add their address to Metro Nashville's no-solicitation list, banning door-to-door commercial sales for two years, and all commercial solicitors need a clerk-issued permit and ID badge, limited to daylight hours.
Any owner or lawful occupant of any residence within the area of the metropolitan government who wishes to prohibit door-to-door commercial solicitation, other than the sale of books and other expressive works, at his or her residence may register the address of such residence by completing a form prepared by the clerk and submitted through the clerk's website. Such registration shall take effect thirty calendar days after the date of the clerk's receipt of the registration form.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 53 | Charter: Republication 9).
Full Breakdown
Metropolitan Code § 6.64.040 lets any owner or occupant register a residence with the metropolitan clerk to bar door-to-door commercial solicitation; registration takes effect 30 days after filing and lasts two years before renewal is required. Commercial solicitors must carry a clerk-issued permit and photo ID badge, obtained only after a criminal background check (§ 6.64.050, § 6.64.060). Section 6.64.035 confines all door-to-door solicitation, commercial or not, to daylight hours -- no earlier than sunrise, no later than sunset or 7:00 p.m. Religious and charitable organizations are exempt from the permit requirement.
Violations & Fines
Soliciting a registered no-solicitation address, working without a clerk permit and badge, or knocking outside daylight hours carries a $50-per-day civil penalty per violation under § 6.64.180.
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