Door-to-Door Permit Rules in Arizona: 12 Cities Checked

Buckeye

Permit: Yes — a peddler or solicitor license and ID card from the city before selling door to door for a commercial purpose ( § 8-3-7 ).
Fee: $25 application fee plus $50 per year for the license, per the city's Business License & Fees page. The code also allows a license to be paid daily or weekly instead of annually (§ 8-3-11).
Hours you may knock: 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. — it is unlawful to enter a residential premises to peddle, solicit or canvass earlier or later than that (§ 8-3-4).
Checked: 19 September 2026

Permit: Yes — two layers.
Fee: Per the Citywide Fee Schedule effective March 2, 2026, section 1.11: $50.00 nonrefundable application investigation fee, $50.00 annual permit for an individual or employee, $100.00 annual permit for the business, $10.00 fingerprinting fee, and a $1,000.00 surety bond or cash deposit. The first year’s annual fee is prorated by quarter (20-10.1).
Hours you may knock: Chapter 20 sets no knocking hours. Nothing in 20-1 to 20-16 gives a start or stop time.
Checked: 19 September 2026

Permit: Yes — a town business license, held as a “transient merchant.” House-to-house selling and order-taking is in the definition (14-166), and working without the license is unlawful (14-168(a)).
Fee: $50 a year for a Transient Merchant license, or $30 per event for a Transient Merchant Special Event, per the town's Business License Fees table (last amended by Resolution 4563, effective July 1, 2025). The town's Business License FAQ gives a different annual figure: "$30 per event or $55 for an annual license". The two town pages disagree on the annual price, and the FAQ figures sit in its special-event vendor answers; the peddling and soliciting answer names the same license without repeating a price. The code itself sets no dollar figure: a nonrefundable license fee "in an amount established by the council by resolution" (14-38(a)(1)).
Hours you may knock: Article VI sets no knocking hours. Nothing in 14-166 to 14-173 gives a start or stop time.
Checked: 19 September 2026

Permit: Yes — a special regulatory license, for the rep and for the company.
Fee: Not published. The code says application and license fees “shall be set by resolution” and adds a fingerprint processing charge set by administrative order (21-22). Neither application packet prints a dollar amount, and the city's Business Licenses, Application Packets and Instructions pages print no special regulatory fee. The code's only fee appendix is a community development schedule with no licensing fees. Application and fingerprinting fees are nonrefundable (21-22(c)).
Hours you may knock: Chapter 21 sets no knocking hours for peddlers or solicitors. Nothing in 21-1 to 21-47 gives a start or stop time.
Checked: 19 September 2026

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 — a peddler permit from the Chief of Police, before going dwelling to dwelling selling goods, merchandise or services for profit ( § 8-1-2 ).
Fee: The code requires a nonrefundable application fee 'set by resolution of Council' (§ 8-1-3(A), § 8-1-4(C)) but does not state the dollar amount, and that amount does not appear on the city's own current User Fee Schedule.
Hours you may knock: 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Saturday and Sunday — the code phrases this as a ban on door-to-door business outside those windows (§ 8-1-6(A)(4)).
Checked: 19 September 2026

Permit: Yes — a peddler and solicitor license, and it is issued to a natural person, so every rep needs their own (5-8-2, 5-8-3(A)).
Fee: $10.00 application fee plus $25.00 background investigation fee, both non-refundable and due with the application, then a $100 license fee at approval. Renewal is $100 a year. Figures are from the city’s application packet; the code points to the schedule of fees and charges (5-8-6). The fingerprint vendor charges its own fee, listed on the fingerprint form.
Hours you may knock: No door-to-door work from dusk or 8:00 P.M., whichever comes first, to dawn or 8:00 A.M. the next day (5-8-5(D)(3)). That covers residential and commercial doors.
Checked: 18 September 2026

Permit: No — not under the city’s door-to-door soliciting article, which regulates the activity without requiring a permit for it.
Fee: None under that article.
Hours you may knock: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. from April 1 through September 30. 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. from October 1 through the following March 31.
Checked: 5 September 2026

Permit: Yes — a solicitor license, per person.
Fee: $10.00 per day per person, written into the code itself (16-145(c)(2)). On top of that, the applicant pays the cost of the criminal history check when fingerprints are taken (16-145(d)); that amount is not in the code. A duplicate license is $10.00 (16-145(e)). The application says the license fee is non-refundable.
Hours you may knock: Not before 9:00 a.m. and not after 9:00 p.m. on any day. Solicitors under sixteen stop at 7:00 p.m. (16-153(b)).
Checked: 18 September 2026

Permit: Yes — a general business license, not a separate 'solicitor permit.' The code requires a license to transact any business in the city, and a person covered by the solicitation article must carry a copy of that license while soliciting ( § 26-20 ).
Fee: $84.00 per year to renew a business license; a new license is prorated by the quarter it starts in ($168, $126, $84 or $42) — per the city's Citywide Fee Schedule.
Hours you may knock: Not published. The solicitation article (§§ 26-220–26-224) sets no clock-time window for door-to-door selling; it only bars soliciting at any residence posted 'No Solicitation' or 'No Soliciting' (§ 26-222).
Checked: 19 September 2026

Permit: Yes — a Solicitor License for the business plus an identification card for every salesperson, before any house-to-house selling ( § 24-71 ).
Fee: $100 non-refundable business application fee, $50 per year for the business, and $50 per year per salesperson (owners included), plus a $22 fingerprint fee per person — per the city's Solicitor License page.
Hours you may knock: Not published. Article III (§§ 24-56–24-90), which covers door-to-door sellers and solicitors, sets no clock-time restriction. Only mobile vehicle merchants are barred from residential areas between 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. (§ 24-29(b)) — a different activity.
Checked: 19 September 2026

Permit: No door-to-door permit in the code.
Fee: No door-to-door fee exists in the code. The city business license costs a nonrefundable $25.00 application fee plus a $50.00 annual license fee, prorated by start date, with a $50.00 renewal each year (19-39). The city's application form gives the same $25 and $50. It is a license for the business, not for each rep.
Hours you may knock: The code sets none. No section read sets knocking hours for door-to-door sales; the solicitation sections in Chapter 11 (11-33, 11-33.1) carry no clock times for residences.
Checked: 19 September 2026

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