Sioux City, IA Soliciting & Door-to-Door: No-Knock Registry (2026)
Key Facts
- Weekday hours
- 9:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m. only
- Sundays
- Soliciting banned entirely
- Holidays
- Soliciting banned entirely
- Posted notice
- Must be obeyed
- Retailer buffer
- 100 feet from competing store
Summary
Sioux City, Iowa (Woodbury County) bars door-to-door peddlers and solicitors from working before 9 a.m. or after 9 p.m. on weekdays, all day Sunday and holidays, or against a posted 'no solicitors' sign.
No person shall engage in business as a transient merchant in defiance of any notice exhibited at a residence or business indicating that peddlers or solicitors are not welcome or not invited.
4. No person shall engage in activities regulated under this chapter from door to door prior to nine a.m. or after nine p.m. of any weekday or at any time on a Sunday or on a state or national holiday.
5. No person shall engage in activities regulated under this chapter on public property within one hundred feet from any building in use for selling similar goods, wares and merchandise at retail.
(Ord. 85/T-3757)
Full Breakdown
Beyond the licensing requirement, Sioux City Municipal Code § 4.56.080 sets hard limits on when and where door-to-door peddlers and solicitors may operate. They cannot work in defiance of a notice posted at a residence or business declaring peddlers or solicitors unwelcome, cannot solicit door-to-door before 9:00 a.m. or after 9:00 p.m. on any weekday, and cannot solicit at all on Sundays or state/national holidays. They also cannot operate within 100 feet of a competing retailer's storefront on public property. A parallel notice-and-hours rule applies specifically to charitable solicitors under §§ 4.52.070 and 4.52.090.
Violations & Fines
Soliciting door-to-door in defiance of a posted 'no solicitors' notice, or outside the 9 a.m.-9 p.m. weekday window (never on Sunday or a holiday), violates SCMC § 4.56.080 and is punished under § 4.56.140.
Frequently Asked Questions
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