Port St. Lucie, FL Soliciting & Door-to-Door: No-Knock Registry (2026)

Chapter 112 gives Port St. Lucie residents a sign-based opt-out rather than a City-run no-knock registry. Sec. 06 states that no solicitor or peddler may enter upon a house, building or other structure without the owner's or occupant's prior consent where a sign or other notice is posted in a conspicuous position at or near the usual point of entry stating that the owner or occupant forbids soliciting. The sign has to sit at the entry a solicitor would use, not tucked away, and the Code does not require particular wording as long as it indicates the resident does not want solicitors.

Sec. 03 backs this up independently: it is unlawful for any person regulated by Chapter 112 to enter private premises at all without the occupant's or homeowner's permission or invitation, sign or no sign. Sec. 04 covers the moment a solicitor is already on the property: it is unlawful for a commercial solicitor, vendor, itinerant merchant or transient vendor to refuse or fail to leave private premises once the owner, occupant or person in charge asks them to go. Sec. 11 requires the Chief of Police to report every conviction for a Chapter 112 violation to the licensing official, who keeps a record of the reports tied to the solicitor's permit file, so a documented no-soliciting-sign violation can factor into a later permit revocation under Sec.

30. Because panhandling and solicitation for bona fide educational, religious or charitable causes are exempted from the whole chapter under Sec. 02, a posted sign under Sec. 06 stops commercial solicitors and peddlers but does not stop panhandlers or charitable canvassers.