Tampa, FL Soliciting & Door-to-Door: No-Knock Registry (2026)

Sec. ' The prohibition reaches beyond the person walking the door-to-door route: it is separately unlawful for any business that advertises by handbill to direct, encourage, or allow an employee or independent contractor to drop handbills on a posted property. The sign requirement is deliberately low-friction for residents -- there's no registry to join or form to file; a conspicuous sign is enough to make further handbill delivery to that address a violation. The companion section, Sec. 6-172, separately bars placing, throwing, dropping, or offering any handbill onto or at a motor vehicle or its occupant while it's operating or momentarily stopped on a public street, or parked in a city-owned lot or garage, closing off the workaround of leafleting cars instead of doors.

Both sections sit in Chapter 6's Division 6 on handbill distribution, alongside the chapter's general business-permit and adult-use rules, and both route enforcement through the same general penalty provision.