La Habra, CA Soliciting & Door-to-Door: Solicitor Permits (2026)
Key Facts
- Registration required
- Application plus police identification before soliciting
- ID fee
- $10 to fund police investigation
- Curfew
- No door-to-door work 6 p.m. to 7 a.m.
- Canvasser/solicitor license tax
- $200/year or $50/day, Section 5.04.600
- Certificate
- Must be carried and shown on request
Summary
Anyone canvassing or soliciting house-to-house in La Habra without a fixed place of business must register with the police department before knocking on a single door. Section 5.04.100 requires an identification application, a ten-dollar investigation fee, and a police-issued certificate the solicitor must carry and show on request, and it bars door-to-door work between six p.m. and seven a.m.
§ 5.04.100. Solicitors and salesmen not having a regular place of business—Additional requirements. A. ... every person not having a regularly established place of business ... involving canvassing and soliciting from house to house or place to place or upon the streets and public places within the city, shall, before engaging in such business or occupation, make application to the administrative officer and upon approval of such application, shall make identification to the police department and receive therefrom a certificate showing that such identification has been made. ... ... C. The identification blank shall be accompanied by a fee of ten dollars to defray the costs of conducting an investigation of the contents of the identification form to verify its contents, which shall be conducted by the police department. ... ... E. Every person issued a license pursuant to the terms and conditions set forth hereinabove shall not engage in any door-to-door or house-to-house solicitations or canvassing at residences located within the city between the hours of six p.m. and seven a.m.
Full Breakdown
Municipal Code Section 5.04.100 covers solicitors and salesmen not having a regular place of business who sell or solicit orders for goods, wares, merchandise, magazines, papers or periodicals, or who canvass house to house, place to place, or on the streets and public places. Before engaging in that activity, the person must apply to the administrative officer and then make identification to the police department. The identification blank requires name, age, permanent address, local temporary address, and a general description in such further detail as the police department may require, including fingerprints.
That application is accompanied by a ten-dollar fee that funds a police department investigation of the information supplied; anyone already exempt from business license fees is exempt from this fee too. Once identification is complete, the police department issues a certificate, which the solicitor must keep on their person at all times while soliciting and display to anyone they approach upon request. Section 5.04.100(E) then layers on a curfew: a person operating under this section shall not engage in any door-to-door or house-to-house solicitations or canvassing at residences located within the city between the hours of six p.m. and seven a.m.
Separately, Section 5.04.600 sets the license tax for canvassers and solicitors at two hundred dollars a year or fifty dollars a day, in advance, though commercial travelers selling to dealers and newspaper carriers are excluded from that fee under subsections E and F of that section.
Violations & Fines
Soliciting door-to-door without the police identification certificate, or after six p.m. or before seven a.m., is a violation of Chapter 5.04 and, under the citywide penalty in Section 1.08.010, is punishable as a misdemeanor by up to a five-hundred-dollar fine and six months in jail unless the city attorney charges it as an infraction; each day of continued violation counts as a separate offense.
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