San Jacinto, CA Soliciting & Door-to-Door: Solicitor Permits (2026)

San Jacinto does not print a stand-alone solicitor permit chapter. Door-to-door sellers are handled through the business license code. Section 5.04.030 defines "Solicitor/soliciting" as any person who travels or goes from house to house within the city and peddles, hawks, vends or sells goods, wares, medicines or merchandise carried or conveyed by that person, or who solicits or takes orders at retail for services, goods, wares or merchandise for future performance or delivery. "Solicitor" includes peddler, and the definition does not apply to a properly cleared solicitor for a charitable organization.

Section 5.04.190 makes it unlawful to transact or carry on any business, trade, profession, calling or occupation in the city without first procuring a city license and paying the prescribed fee. It does not exempt anyone from other permit or approval requirements. The fee for this class is set in Section 5.08.120, Category F, Special Business (Fixed Fees), item 32: peddlers and solicitors pay one hundred dollars ($100.00) for six months minimum, or ten dollars ($10.00) per day, minimum of three days. Under Section 5.04.360, a business that starts before applying for and securing a license adds a penalty of fifty percent of the prescribed fee, or twenty dollars ($20.00), whichever is higher.

A different chapter limits sellers who set up at temporary locations. Section 5.60.020 defines an "itinerant vendor" as a person engaged in a temporary business of selling and delivering goods, wares and merchandise who uses a mobile vending unit, motor vehicle, tent or other structure, or any street, alley or other place, public or private. The definition excludes a person who exhibits samples only to secure orders for future delivery only. Section 5.60.030(A) makes itinerant vending unlawful, with exceptions for mobile food units operating under Chapter 5.52, licensed ice cream trucks, temporary automobile dealers, seasonal sales events under a temporary use permit, and outdoor sales events of existing retail businesses.