Inglewood, CA Soliciting & Door-to-Door: Solicitor Permits (2026)

47 as any person who goes from residence to residence in the City selling or taking orders for property, goods, or services, including telephone solicitation. 2, the sections that had regulated peddling, soliciting, and sidewalk vending, and replaced them with a new Article 13 (§§ 8-161 through 8-168), the Sidewalk Vendor Program, which governs vendors selling merchandise or food on public sidewalks, not door-to-door canvassers visiting private residences. With the local permit scheme gone, a resident who does not want solicitors at the door relies on the state's general trespass law.

California Penal Code § 602 makes it a misdemeanor to willfully commit a trespass by any of a list of acts, and subdivision (o)(1) covers refusing or failing to leave land, real property, or structures belonging to or lawfully occupied by another and not open to the general public, after being asked to leave either by a peace officer acting at the request of the owner, agent, or person in lawful possession, or directly by that owner, agent, or person in possession. Normally the owner must make a fresh request to police each time, but § 602(o)(1) lets an owner file a single notarized written request with the law enforcement agency that stays effective for a period set by local ordinance or twelve months, whichever is shorter, covering repeat unwanted visits without a new call each time.