Troup County, GA Soliciting & Door-to-Door: Solicitor Permits (2026)

Troup County Code § 50-161, codified in chapter 50's article on transient or itinerant merchants, requires every peddler or itinerant trader, whether selling by sample or otherwise, to apply for a license to the judge of the probate court before doing business in the unincorporated county. The probate judge, rather than the business license department that handles ordinary occupation taxes, both grants the license and sets its terms, and is authorized to impose whatever license fee he deems advisable; those fees are used for county purposes.

By its own terms the license is territorially limited: it extends only to the limits of the county, so a peddler licensed by Troup County cannot rely on that license to solicit inside LaGrange, West Point or Hogansville, each of which licenses peddlers separately within its own city limits. The article's footnote ties the ordinance to the state's peddler and itinerant-trader framework in O.C.G.A. § 43-32-1 et seq., the county's home-rule authority to regulate peddling and set license costs under O.C.G.A. § 36-5-22.1(a)(9), and the Georgia Charitable Solicitations Act, O.C.G.A. § 43-17-1 et seq., meaning charitable solicitors and door-to-door sellers of exempt agricultural products may fall under separate state carve-outs even though the county code itself does not spell those exemptions out in article V.