Richmond, VA Soliciting & Door-to-Door: Solicitor Permits (2026)

Section 6-418 defines a 'peddler' as anyone who carries goods, wares or merchandise from place to place in a vehicle and sells or barters them, on private property or on a sidewalk as defined in Section 6-453, and folds in every peddler required to pay a license tax under Chapter 26; it exempts farmers selling their own produce outside City market areas and merchants delivering wholesale to other dealers. 00 for each additional vehicle, paid in full when the license issues and non-transferable. On the conduct side, Section 6-419 caps how long a peddler's vehicle can sit in one spot, no longer than necessary to finish a sale, and never more than 30 minutes between two intersecting streets in a single day.

Section 6-420 bars peddling on any block where parking meters are installed. Section 6-421 keeps peddlers 300 feet from a school building while it's open for instruction if selling to school-age children, and Section 6-422 applies that same 300-foot buffer against crying out goods near a hospital, school or a church during services. , Section 6-424 bars obstructing other street users, Section 6-425 keeps a peddler from wandering past the block where the peddling vehicle is parked, and Section 6-426 requires every peddling vehicle to plainly display the peddler's name, street address and post office address.