Birmingham
Partly read: the permit answer is sourced, but the fee or the hours could not be read from the city’s own pages.
- Permit: Yes, in general terms.
- Fee: The general business license has a $100.00 annual minimum unless another schedule sets a different amount (§ 3A-1-42(1)). A specific schedule sets $36.00 for "each canvasser employed by installment merchant" (Appendix A, Schedule 193). No dedicated fee for a door-to-door services sales team (e.g., fiber, solar, pest, security) is published separately from the general business license.
- Hours you may knock: Not published. Chapter 14 (Peddlers and Solicitors) sets no clock-time restriction on when a commercial solicitor may knock; it only bars entering a property that has posted a no trespassing/no soliciting notice (§ 12-14-5).
- Checked: 19 September 2026
Huntsville
- Permit: Yes. Every commercial solicitor needs a solicitor’s permit before soliciting at a residence (18-8(a)).
- Fee: Not published. The code sets a non-refundable application fee “in an amount to be determined by the city clerk-treasurer” (18-9(g)). The city’s Solicitation License page and the application form do not print the amount.
- Hours you may knock: 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., any day. The limit binds a solicitor whether or not a permit was issued, unless the occupant invited you (18-5).
- Checked: 18 September 2026
Mobile
Partly read: the permit answer is sourced, but the fee or the hours could not be read from the city’s own pages.
- Permit: Yes. Each rep needs an individual Solicitor Permit issued by the Mobile Police Department, and the company needs an agent/solicitor business license from the city (License and Tax Code, Schedule 425120 / 454384).
- Fee: The Solicitor Permit itself is $25, per the police department's own fee schedule. Separately, the business license schedule lists the agent/solicitor's permit line item as "$3.00" in addition to the agent and solicitor business license, which is taxed at a rate (not a flat dollar figure) under Schedule 425120 (ch. 34 fee schedule).
- Hours you may knock: Not published on the pages read. No clock-time knocking-hours restriction for commercial solicitors was found in the license and tax chapter or in the public-peace-and-order offenses chapter.
- Checked: 19 September 2026
Montgomery
- Permit: Yes. A door-to-door sales/solicitor business must hold a transient business license, and each rep working under it must separately register with the Revenue Department as a transient worker (16-107).
- Fee: $1,000.00 for the company's door-to-door sales/solicitor license, plus a $12.00 transient-worker registration fee for every person working under that license (§ 16-107(a)(4)g).
- Hours you may knock: Without an express invitation: April 1–October 31, Monday–Friday 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Sunday 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. November 1–March 31, Monday–Friday 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Sunday 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. (§ 20-3).
- Checked: 19 September 2026
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