Grant County, WA Soliciting & Door-to-Door: Solicitor Permits (2026)
Key Facts
- License fee
- $30 for peddlers, hawkers, barterers, auctioneers
- Special deposit
- $500, required for peddler's license
- Issuing office
- Grant County treasurer
- Per-unit rule
- Separate license per individual or per vehicle
- Exempt sellers
- Growers of own farm products; book/newspaper vendors
Summary
Anyone peddling, hawking, bartering or auctioneering door to door in unincorporated Grant County needs a license from the county treasurer under GCC 5.02.020. The license fee is thirty dollars, and peddlers must additionally post a five-hundred-dollar special deposit before the county issues the permit, per GCC 5.02.030 and 5.02.040.
5.02.030 - License fee. Pursuant to the authority of the board of commissioners as set forth in RCW 36.71.020 and RCW 36.32.120(3), the Grant County license fee for peddlers, hawkers, barterers or auctioneers, is set at thirty dollars U.S. Currency. ... 5.02.040 - Special deposit. Pursuant to RCW 36.71.020, applicants for a license to be a peddler, shall make a special deposit in the amount of five hundred dollars to the appropriate county official, in addition payment of other costs, including without limitation, the license fee and all taxes legally chargeable on the special deposit. ... 5.02.045 - [Licenses required.] A peddler's license, including the special deposit, shall be required for each individual engaged in peddling. An auctioneer's, barterer's or hawker's license shall be required for each traveling boat, wagon, cart or vehicle or any kind, or from any pack, basket or other package carried on foot, the aggregate of which can be carried by one individual on foot.
Full Breakdown
020. The chapter's definitions sweep broadly: a peddler is anyone, principal or agent, who goes from place to place and house to house selling goods, wares or merchandise, while hawker, barterer and auctioneer cover selling from a traveling boat, wagon, cart or vehicle, or from a pack or basket carried on foot. Farm products grown by the seller, and books, periodicals or newspapers, are carved out of the definition entirely. 120(3). 040, on top of the license fee and any taxes chargeable against the deposit itself.
045 makes the license personal rather than blanket: a peddler's license, with its deposit, is required for each individual who peddles, and an auctioneer's, barterer's or hawker's license is required for each traveling boat, wagon, cart or vehicle used, so a two-person operation running two carts needs two separate licenses, not one.
Violations & Fines
The chapter does not print its own fine schedule for operating without a license; enforcement runs through the county's general code enforcement and penalty provisions in GCC Title 1.32. The five-hundred-dollar special deposit required of peddlers under GCC 5.02.040 stands as security the county can draw against, separate from any citation, and is required before a license can issue at all.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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