Tangipahoa Parish, LA Soliciting & Door-to-Door: No-Knock Registry (2026)

The ordinance covers solicitors, peddlers, hawkers, itinerant merchants and transient vendors of merchandise operating in the rural and unincorporated areas outside Hammond, Ponchatoula, Amite City and the parish's other incorporated towns, each of which sets its own rules within its own limits. Before going onto anyone's property, a vendor must both hold a lawful permit issued by the parish council-president government (or its designee) and have been requested or invited by the owner or occupant. Skipping either requirement, showing up unpermitted or unbid, turns the visit into a criminal nuisance under Parish Code Section 26-211, adopted by Ordinance No.

13-09 on March 25, 2013 and carried forward from 1993 Code Section 13-154. A companion rule at Section 26-212 separately bars using parish streets, sidewalks or other public property to buy or sell goods, wares, produce or merchandise, though it carves out an exception for farmers selling their own farm produce. Peddlers must also separately register for state and parish sales tax collection under Section 26-186 and obtain a peddler's license from the parish permit office under Section 26-141, so a solicitor working the rural parish has to satisfy the sales-tax, licensing and no-knock rules together before ever ringing a doorbell. Because the parish has no zoning districts, these solicitation limits apply uniformly across the unincorporated area rather than by district.