Charlotte County, FL Soliciting & Door-to-Door: Solicitor Permits (2026)

Sec. 1-10-76(a) makes Article III of the county's Door-to-Door Selling chapter apply to all home solicitation sales, as that term is defined in F.S. section 501.021, conducted anywhere in Charlotte County, and subsection (b) carries over whatever exemptions Florida Statutes sections 501.021 through 501.055 already grant, so a seller exempt under state law is exempt from the county rule too. Sec. 1-10-77 makes it unlawful for anyone to engage, for themselves or on behalf of someone else, in the business of door-to-door selling without first obtaining a home solicitation permit, and routes the application through the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court under F.S. section 501.022(2) rather than through county staff. The article traces to Ord. No. 2008-094, adopted November 25, 2008, which replaced an earlier version of the same three sections dating to a 1982 ordinance.

Beyond the permit itself, Sec. 1-10-78 layers a county-specific time restriction on top of whatever the state statute already requires: no home solicitation sale defined under this article can happen between 6:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m., a limit that exists independently of and in addition to the Chapter 501 protections, so a permit holder still cannot knock on doors in the evening or early morning even though the state statute does not set those hours itself.