Madison County does not issue or require door-to-door solicitor permits in unincorporated areas; its zoning authority does not extend to licensing peddlers. Door-to-door sellers must honor Alabama's three-business-day right to cancel a home-solicitation sale.
Solicitor licensing is a police-power function that Alabama grants to cities, not counties, and Madison County's land-use zoning authority does not include it, so the county runs no solicitor-permit or peddler-registration program for unincorporated areas. A salesperson going door to door there needs no county permit. State consumer law still applies: Code Section 5-19-12 gives the buyer of a home-solicitation sale the right to cancel until midnight of the third business day after signing. Huntsville, Madison, and other cities separately license solicitors inside their own limits under their police power.
The county issues no solicitor citations. A seller who denies the statutory cancellation right faces the buyer's rescission and the return of payments, and can draw enforcement under Alabama's consumer-protection statutes.
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