Baldwin Park, California: door-to-door solicitor permit

Partly read: the permit answer is sourced, but the fee or the hours could not be read from the city’s own pages. The clerk questions below cover the gap.

• The answer: Not confirmed from the code. The city's fee schedule (effective January 5, 2026) has a business license line for solicitors, priced per person or per company, so a solicitor license exists. Whether it covers a door-to-door rep taking orders for a service, and whether a police permit is also needed, could not be read because the city code host blocked an automated reader.
• Where it comes from: The Finance Department issues business licenses. The city's Business License page says a business coming into the city with no physical location files the Business License Tax Application.
• Fee: Solicitor per person: $100.00 Per Year or $15.00 Per Day. Solicitor per company: $300.00, covering up to 15 individual solicitors. Both are on the Business License Fee Schedule (Exhibit A-7). The city's Business Licenses page says all fees are subject to an additional assessment fee and asks applicants to call for exact fees.
• Hours you may knock: Not published on the city pages read. The code chapter was not read.
• What the rep carries: Not read. The code chapter was blocked.
• What takes the time: Not read from the code. The fee schedule's police section (Exhibit A-3) lists no solicitor permit or background check fee.
• Code: Baldwin Park Municipal Code, hosted on American Legal Publishing (linked from the city's website). The solicitor chapter and section numbers were not read.
• Read it yourself: City of Baldwin Park — City-Wide Fee Schedule FY 2025-26, effective 01.05.26 (PDF) · City of Baldwin Park — Business Licenses · City of Baldwin Park — Business License · checked 23 September 2026

Ask the clerk, and write the answer down:

• Whether a door-to-door rep taking orders for a service such as fiber internet needs the solicitor business license, and whether per person or per company pricing applies
• Whether the police also require a solicitor permit, a background check or an ID badge
• What hours door-to-door sales are allowed, and the code section
• The amount of the additional assessment fee added to the license

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