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

Section 6.72.130 of the Placentia Municipal Code opens with the words "Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this code," so its limits on soliciting and peddling override anything else in the code. Subsection (1) is the door rule. A peddler or solicitor selling or pretending to sell goods, wares or merchandise, or taking or soliciting orders for any article, material or substance, cannot ring the bell or knock on the door of a residence, dwelling, flat or apartment where a sign with the words No Peddlers, No Solicitors or No Peddlers or Solicitors is painted, affixed or exposed to public view. The sign is the trigger: the rule protects a household that posts one.

The exception is narrow. The rule does not apply to a peddler or solicitor who knocks or rings at the invitation, or with the consent, of some member of the household at which he applies for admission. Section 6.72.020 closes a related gap by classing anyone invited into the city by the person being solicited as a solicitor or peddler who must hold a permit before doing business.

Chapter 6.72 prints no registry and no time-of-day limit for door knocking, so the posted sign is the only no-knock mechanism in the chapter. The same section adds three other limits. Under subsection (2), a business cannot use the sidewalk or street in front of or adjacent to its place to entice people inside. Under subsection (3), no one can use a telephone in furtherance of a solicitation, except an unpaid bona fide member of an organization holding a charitable solicitation permit. Under subsection (4), no permit issues for peddling on city parks.

Every permit holder must wear the identification card under Section 6.72.060 and exhibit the license at the request of any citizen under Section 6.72.070, so a resident can ask to see it before deciding whether to answer.