Hialeah, FL Soliciting & Door-to-Door: Solicitor Permits (2026)

Hialeah's peddler and itinerant vendor rules, in Chapter 18, Article VI, Division 2, define the regulated activity in Sec. 18-301 as going from place to place for the purpose of selling or offering for sale any goods, merchandise or wares for immediate delivery, a definition that excludes route deliveries of pre-ordered items, sample-only solicitation, and food trucks. Sec. 18-305 requires anyone seeking a peddler or itinerant vendor license to provide the city business tax department a current state sales tax identification number, and once licensed, to display a city identification card bearing the license number on their person while conducting business.

Sec. 18-307 sets the application content: applicant and business owner name and address, a description of the goods to be sold, any vehicle used with its license/registration number, and written property-owner approval for any storage or parking location. Sec. 18-302 prohibits obstructing vehicle or pedestrian traffic and bars a peddler from permanently stopping at one location on public or private property to solicit or sell; a vendor's vehicle parked more than 30 minutes with goods displayed and no sale occurring creates a rebuttable presumption of an illegal fixed business location.

Sec. 18-303 layers on location and product limits: no sales within 300 feet of a limited-access highway ramp, overpass or facility, none in school zones during posted hours, and no raw meat, poultry, fish or seafood, nor any food besides that from a licensed, state-inspected food establishment. Sec. 18-304 bars storing or displaying inventory, stands, boxes or signs on any public right-of-way, including the sidewalk or swale.