Cherokee County, GA Soliciting & Door-to-Door: Solicitor Permits (2026)

Code of Ordinances Section 18-114 requires every solicitor, resident or nonresident, to file an application with the license bureau and obtain a permit before soliciting orders door to door. The license bureau investigates the applicant's criminal record and moral character, forwarding a duplicate application to the county marshal, who must report back on the applicant's criminal record within ten days. The county will deny a permit to anyone with a pending charge or conviction for a crime of moral turpitude, an assault-and-battery-type offense, or a civil judgment for fraud or deceit, and it will not accept a new application within 12 months of a prior one that was dismissed, denied or abandoned.

Approved solicitors pay a fee set on the county's schedule of fees, and the permit runs 90 days from issuance before it must be renewed for another fee. Section 18-115 requires a visible badge showing the solicitor's name, company, and ID number in type readable from ten feet, worn on the shoulder. Section 18-116 requires presenting an information card at every household, disclosing a right to refuse entry and a right to cancel a home solicitation agreement until midnight the next business day, and bars entering a home without express invitation or continuing after a 'no soliciting' sign or a request to leave. m.