Linden, NJ Soliciting & Door-to-Door: Solicitor Permits (2026)
Key Facts
- License fee
- $400
- License term
- 14 days (most licenses)
- Max licenses per applicant per year
- 4
- Door-to-door hours allowed
- 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
- Minimum distance from right-of-way
- 15 feet
Summary
Peddlers, solicitors and transient merchants must get a $400 license before working Linden's streets, and door-to-door canvassing is barred before 9 a.m. and after 7 p.m. Most licenses run just 14 days, and the City caps any applicant at four in a calendar year.
§ 4-2.6. License Required. ... It shall be unlawful for any transient merchant, itinerant vendor, itinerant merchant, peddler, hawker, mobile retail food establishment, or solicitor to sell, buy, dispose of or offer to sell or dispose of any goods, wares, merchandise or other things of value or services or to solicit contributions, gifts, pledges or subscriptions of money or goods without first obtaining a license therefor. ... Any license issued herein for door-to-door solicitation shall prohibit such activity before the hour of 9:00 a.m. and after 7:00 p.m. ... The license fee shall be $400 per license for peddler, solicitors or transient merchants. ... Other than a license issued to a nonprofit organization for the purpose of conducting door-to-door solicitation and pursuant to the provisions of subsection 4-2.6 hereof, or to a mobile retail food establishment, all licenses issued under the provisions of this chapter to a nonprofit vendor, a transient merchant or solicitor shall be valid only for a fourteen (14) day period. ... No applicant shall be issued more than four (4) licenses in any one (1) calendar year.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: rev 4586096; v16 updated 2025-12-16; through 12-16-2025).
Full Breakdown
6, License Required, makes it unlawful for any transient merchant, itinerant vendor, itinerant merchant, peddler, hawker or solicitor to sell, buy, or solicit money, goods or pledges anywhere in the City without first obtaining a license. 8 requires a sworn written application listing the applicant's identifying information, business history for the past five years, the goods to be sold, any prior criminal or ordinance convictions, and consent to fingerprinting and photographing by the Police Department. m. 9(b) also bars licensing any transient merchant or nonprofit vendor whose sales location sits closer than 15 feet to a street right-of-way line.
10, is $400 per license for a peddler, solicitor or transient merchant, a flat charge regardless of the goods sold. 12 limits most of these licenses to a 14-day period, with each additional 14-day stretch requiring its own separate license, and no applicant may be issued more than four licenses in a single calendar year; only a nonprofit organization's door-to-door solicitation license and a mobile retail food establishment's license escape that 14-day cap. 6.
Violations & Fines
The License Inspector maintains a record of complaints and violations under Section 4-2.13 and reports them to the Chief of Police. Section 4-2.14 places enforcement of the peddling and soliciting chapter with the Board of Health and the Police Department; canvassing outside the 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. window or without a license is a violation of the license terms.
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