Stonecrest, GA Soliciting & Door-to-Door: No-Knock Registry (2026)

Codified at City Code § 16-36 and adopted by Ordinance No. 2018-10-03, Stonecrest's civil trespass section makes it unlawful for any person to knowingly and without authority enter upon the land or premises of another after receiving, before that entry, notice from the owner, rightful occupant, or an authorized representative that entry is forbidden. The section then answers the practical question of what counts as notice for a solicitor showing up unannounced: a posted "no solicitation" sign is deemed adequate notice on its own, so a resident does not have to speak to or personally warn off each individual peddler, canvasser or panhandler who ignores the posting.

Stonecrest's Code does not require residents to enroll on a separate do-not-knock registry policed by the license office; the sign itself, once posted, satisfies the notice element that criminal trespass requires. This dovetails with Chapter 15's peddler and door-to-door sales rules, which already confine soliciting and canvassing to the hours of 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. under § 15.20.2, so a posted sign functions as a complete, individualized opt-out that operates on top of those citywide hour limits. Because § 16-36 sits in Chapter 16's general offenses article rather than the peddler-licensing chapter, a violation is punished as a misdemeanor under the chapter's general clause, § 16-1.