Sterling Heights, MI Soliciting & Door-to-Door: No-Knock Registry (2026)

No solicitation. No door-to-door sales or solicitations nor sales or solicitations on private property shall be permitted at any time where a "No Solicitors," "No Trespassing" or similar notice is posted, except by invitees.

(8)   Asked to leave. No itinerant merchant shall remain on private property after having been directed to quit the premises by any person lawfully in possession of the premises.

(9)   Application information. It shall be a violation of this chapter or any person knowingly to file or cause to be filed an application for a license containing one or more false statements.

(10)   Fixed stands prohibited. No license holder shall stop or remain in any one place upon any street, alley or public place in violation of any other ordinance of the city, including zoning, parking, stopping and standing traffic regulations or any longer than necessary to make a sale to a customer wishing to buy. Any itinerant merchant using a vehicle, when stopped, shall place his or her vehicle parallel to and within 12 inches of the curb and shall depart from such place as soon as he or she has completed sales with customers actually present.

(11)   Prohibited areas. No itinerant merchant shall engage in peddling on any street, alley or public place after having been requested to desist by any Sterling Heights police officer because of congested or dangerous traffic conditions. No itinerant merchant shall engage in business in a commercially