Jonesboro, AR Soliciting & Door-to-Door: Solicitor Permits (2026)

Sec. 62-146 of the Jonesboro Code of Ordinances requires each itinerant person engaged in the business of merchant, vendor, solicitor, door-to-door canvasser, photographer, or salesman in the city to pay the city collector a license fee in the sum established by the city council. The section builds in a deposit-and-refund mechanism to determine who actually owes the itinerant fee: any person beginning one of these occupations pays the license fee as a deposit up front, and that deposit is returned if the person stays in continuous operation within the city for six consecutive months, at which point they instead pay only the tax rate prescribed for parties regularly engaged in business under Sec.

62-137. If the person does not remain continuously engaged for the full six months, the deposit is instead applied against the itinerant license fee itself, meaning it is forfeited toward the license cost rather than refunded. Related sections in the same article regulate other license categories a door-to-door operator's activity might overlap with: Sec. 62-141 makes it unlawful for the city to do business with anyone who has not paid a privilege tax and obtained the required license, and Sec. 00 deposit and a 300-foot setback from any public street for circus and tent-show operators, with violations of that section a misdemeanor. Sec. 62-144 additionally requires a state license before any city license issues where state law also requires one.