Fountain, CO Soliciting & Door-to-Door: Solicitor Permits (2026)
Key Facts
- Permitted hours
- 9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. (§ 9.64.010)
- Barred days
- Sundays and holidays (§ 9.64.010)
- License trigger
- Any act of soliciting or selling (§ 5.12.020)
- Nonprofit exemption
- Available under § 5.12.020(H)
- Hours rule adopted
- Ord. No. 762, 1987
Summary
Fountain limits door-to-door selling to 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on non-Sundays and non-holidays under Fountain Municipal Code § 9.64.010, and treats soliciting or offering goods for sale as 'doing business,' triggering the general business-license requirement of § 5.12.020 rather than a dedicated peddler's permit chapter.
C.One act constitutes doing business. For the purpose of this chapter, any person shall be deemed to be in business or engaging in a nonprofit enterprise, and thus subject to the requirements of subsections A and B of this section, when he does one act of:1.Selling any goods or services.2.Soliciting business or offering goods or service for sale or hire.3.Acquiring or using any vehicle or any premises in the city for business purposes. ... Sec. 9.64.010. - Door-to-door solicitation, hours and days permitted. No door-to-door solicitation for the purpose of selling goods, wares, merchandise or services, or anything of value for present or future delivery or performance, shall be permitted within the city before 9:00 a.m. or after 6:00 p.m.; provided, however, there shall be no solicitation or door-to-door selling for the purpose of selling wares, goods, merchandise or services, or anything of value for present or future delivery or performance on Sundays and holidays.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 3).
Full Breakdown
Fountain has no stand-alone peddler or solicitor licensing chapter comparable to its pawnbroker or massage-parlor rules. Instead, two provisions combine to govern door-to-door sales. ' That hours restriction dates to Ordinance No. 762 of 1987 and has not been amended since. 020(H). 100 bans 'aggressive solicitation,' including blocking pedestrians, touching without consent, or soliciting from traffic medians, punishable by up to a $50 fine for a first offense; that provision targets panhandling behavior rather than commercial peddling and is enforced independently of the business-license and hours rules above.
Violations & Fines
Soliciting door-to-door outside the 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. window, on a Sunday, or on a holiday violates § 9.64.010; general code violations are punished under § 1.12.010. Soliciting or selling without the business license required by § 5.12.020 exposes a person to denial or revocation proceedings and the penalty set in § 5.12.100, also tied to § 1.12.010.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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