Queen Creek, AZ Soliciting & Door-to-Door: Solicitor Permits (2026)

Article 8-2 of the Town Code defines a solicitor as anyone who travels house to house or business to business taking orders for goods, services or future delivery, and a peddler as anyone doing the same while carrying and selling merchandise on the spot; Section 8-2-1 requires both, along with transient and itinerant merchants, to hold a town license before operating, though producers of agricultural products selling their own crops through family members or employees are exempted. To get that license, Section 8-2-4 requires an applicant to file identifying information including name, date of birth and Social Security number, a recent two-by-two photograph, a description of the goods being sold, two local property owners willing to vouch for the applicant's character, and a $25 investigation fee paid to the Lead Customer Service Representative; anyone selling edible foodstuffs must also submit a physician's statement or Maricopa County health card confirming they are free of communicable disease.

Section 8-2-5 gives the Town up to ten working days to investigate the applicant's business responsibility and character before issuing or denying the license. Once licensed, Section 8-2-8 bars a solicitor from claiming any fixed location on a public street, operating within three hundred feet of a school, or working a congested area if a Town official determines the activity impedes the public, and Section 8-2-9 forbids using a horn, bell, loudspeaker or other sound device to attract attention. Charitable, religious and philanthropic organizations can solicit for free under Section 8-2-6's simplified registration instead of the full licensing process.