San Clemente, CA Soliciting & Door-to-Door: Solicitor Permits (2026)
Key Facts
- License required
- From License Collector, § 5.08.040(B)
- Photo ID
- Attached to license; $2.00 fee if none provided
- Hours limit
- Sunrise to sunset only, § 9.04.040
- Opt-out
- Posted "No Soliciting" sign bars entry
- Out-of-city solicitors
- Pay tax under fee schedule Code 01/02
Summary
San Clemente requires every door-to-door solicitor, canvasser, or peddler to obtain a solicitor's business license from the License Collector before working the city's streets. Solicitors may call at private homes unless the resident has posted a "No Soliciting" sign, and a separate section confines canvassing to daylight hours between sunrise and sunset.
2.Solicitors, peddlers, canvassers, demonstrators or sales persons' activities shall be confined to business establishments within the City; except, such persons may call upon private residences unless such a private residence shall have posted a sign which substantively reads as follows: "No Soliciting."3.All solicitors, canvassers or peddlers must first obtain a solicitor's business license from the License Collector. A photograph of each individual soliciting is required so it can be attached to the license for identification. If the applicant cannot provide a photograph, the License Collector will do so for a fee of two dollars ($2.00).
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Traffic: Supplement 30 | Code of Ordinances: Supplement 66 Update 1).
Full Breakdown
040(B) governs anyone who goes door to door in the city selling goods or services without a fixed local business address. 08's business-license scheme. 00 fee. Anyone conducting an out-of-city business who solicits, canvasses, or advertises in San Clemente and delivers a product or performs a service here pays the applicable business license tax under fee schedule Code 01 or 02. 040, backs this up by making it unlawful to enter private property to solicit orders, peddle, canvass, or hawk goods except during the hours between sunrise and sunset, and it repeats the "No Soliciting" sign exception.
Together the two sections create a licensing-plus-hours framework: get the photo-ID license from the License Collector first, then respect posted refusals and stay off private property after dark.
Violations & Fines
Soliciting without first obtaining the License Collector's photo-ID license, ignoring a posted "No Soliciting" sign, or canvassing private property outside the sunrise-to-sunset window set by Section 9.04.040 exposes a solicitor to citation as a business-license violation enforceable under the city's general code-enforcement provisions in Title 1.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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