Sherman, TX Soliciting & Door-to-Door: No-Knock Registry (2026)

Section 4.08.008 of the Sherman Code of Ordinances is the entire hours rule for door-to-door selling: peddlers and solicitors can conduct business only between the hours of 8:00 a.m. to sunset. The rule reaches anyone who goes from place to place in the city soliciting orders for, selling or offering to sell goods, wares, merchandise, services, photographs, magazines, magazine subscriptions or food products, as defined in § 4.08.001. Itinerant merchants who sell at a location in the city for less than thirty (30) days are folded into the same article.

The hours limit comes with a permit. Under § 4.08.041 it is unlawful to engage in the sales activity without first obtaining a permit from the city clerk, and an agent or employee cannot sell or solicit funds unless the principal or employer holds a permit. The permit is valid for one hundred eighty (180) days (§ 4.08.051), and the applicant must post a bond of not less than $1,000.00 (§ 4.08.045). Each major highway entering the city is to carry a sign advising travelers of the permit requirement (§ 4.08.006).

Section 4.08.005 protects residents and passersby. It is unlawful for any person soliciting customers for the sale of goods, wares or merchandise to stop or detain any person upon the street, sidewalk or public place, to harass, disturb or importune any person, or to take hold of any person or article belonging to that person. Section 4.08.004 exempts farm and garden product sales and ordinary commercial travelers from the article, but expressly keeps § 4.08.005 in force for them.

Article 4.08 as printed contains no no-solicitation registry, posted-sign or do-not-knock provision. The hours limit, the permit requirement and § 4.08.005 are the rules on the books for door-to-door callers in the City of Sherman, Texas.