Worcester County, MD Soliciting & Door-to-Door: Solicitor Permits (2026)

Section TR 2-104 requires a license for anyone who conducts business as an itinerant or door-to-door peddler or salesman of goods, wares or merchandise in Worcester County, Maryland, whether by sample or otherwise. The Sheriff of the county issues the license, and a recent photograph of the peddler or salesman must be attached to it before issuance. The definition reaches beyond goods: a peddler or salesman includes one who offers for sale or solicits subscriptions for magazines or other periodical publications. The fee is whatever the County Commissioners set by resolution; the Code does not print a dollar amount.

Subsection (c) lists who falls outside the section: vendors of milk or cream, bread, meat, fuels of petroleum products, farm produce, fish or other seafood, farm supplies, home furnishings, motor vehicles or newspapers, and any person under eighteen years of age who is regularly attending school in any of the schools of Worcester County. A separate rule applies to selling from a roadside. Under § PS 3-102, selling or offering anything along the side of any road requires a permit from the State Highway Administration on a state road or from the County Commissioners on a county road, a license from the County Commissioners, and site plan review under § ZS 1-325.

Ocean City, Berlin, Snow Hill and Pocomoke City have separate codes and are not governed by § TR 2-104, so this license covers unincorporated Worcester County.