Farmersville, TX Soliciting & Door-to-Door: Solicitor Permits (2026)

Sec. 53-3(a) covers a broad range of activity: peddling, selling, soliciting, canvassing, or taking orders for services, wares, merchandise, or any article of value, from plants and paintings to firewood and magazines, while on a sidewalk, parkway, parking lot, required landscaped area, city-owned or -controlled property, or while making door-to-door contact. Subsection (b) makes the permit personal to the holder, void if reassigned or reproduced, and subsection (f) bars issuing one to anyone under 16 years old. The Sec. 53-4 application must be sworn and notarized and disclose the applicant's identity, business structure, the specific locations and time period of solicitation, projected hours, a description of goods or services, any prior felony or moral-turpitude misdemeanor conviction, a state driver's license or ID number, vehicle details if vehicles will be used, and a current state sales tax permit.

Sec. 53-5 requires a non-refundable application fee set in the master fee schedule for the original applicant plus each additional peddler working under that permit. Sec. 00, running to the Mayor of Farmersville, that stays in effect for the life of the permit and indemnifies buyers against defective goods discovered within 30 days of delivery. Sec. 53-9 exempts franchised utilities, state-licensed insurance and real estate agents, and commercial agents dealing with local businesses from the permit and fee, and exempts nonprofit, school, religious, and political groups distributing handbills from registration altogether. A violation is punished under Sec. 53-13.