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

Section 4.23.110(A) bars any solicitor from contacting or attempting to contact any occupant of a house or dwelling where the owner or occupant has posted, at the front of the house, a sign or placard prohibiting soliciting, printed in letters not less than one inch in height, and placed at a location unobstructed and clearly visible from the normal entrance way. Section 4.23.110(B) extends the same protection to private commercial property normally open to the public, requiring the sign or placard to be posted at all entrances, printed in the same minimum one-inch letters, and located so it is unobstructed and clearly visible to everyone entering the property.

This no-knock rule sits inside Chapter 4.23, the same chapter that requires every solicitor, peddler and itinerant vendor to hold a City business license, a regulatory permit, and a City identification card, and that confines solicitor visits generally to between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. Chapter 4.23's definitions section, Section 4.23.020, makes clear the posting rule covers a broad category of callers: it defines "solicitor" to include peddlers, hawkers, transient dealers, interviewers, and anyone approaching a house or public place to sell or give away goods or take orders, so a posted sign forecloses contact from any of those categories, not just charitable fundraisers.

The exemptions in Section 4.23.120, covering student groups, wholesalers calling on retail businesses, farmers selling their own produce, and lawful swap meet or farmers' market vendors, do not carve out an exception to the posted-sign bar itself; a compliant sign blocks solicitation contact regardless of the caller's exempt status under other sections.