Bellevue, Washington: door-to-door solicitor permit

• The answer: No chapter for peddlers, solicitors or canvassers exists in the Bellevue City Code. Title 5, Business Licenses and Regulations, lists only ambulances, dance halls, cabarets, for-hire vehicles, hotels, cable and pawnbrokers — no door-to-door category. The city's own Regulatory Licenses page lists the same set and does not include a peddler or solicitor license either. What does apply is the general business registration required of anyone doing business in the city (4.03.025).
• Where it comes from: Bellevue City Code Chapter 4.03, Tax Administrative Code, administered by the finance department.
• Fee: The code prints $80.00 for the general business registration certificate, and the same section says the director adjusts that fee every January 1 by the cost-of-living change, so the amount charged today is not the printed one (4.03.030). This is not a door-to-door-specific fee — it is the standard registration any business doing more than $4,000 a year of business in the city must carry, per the threshold effective January 1, 2026 (4.03.025). There is no solicitor fee because there is no solicitor license.
• Hours you may knock: Not published. No chapter of the Bellevue City Code sets knocking hours for commercial door-to-door sales; the only "Soliciting" section found (BCC 3.43.280) governs selling inside city parks, a different question.
• What the rep carries: Not published. No badge, permit or ID requirement for door-to-door sales was found.
• What takes the time: Not published. The general business registration (4.03.025-.030) has no background check, fingerprinting or waiting period; it is filed with the finance department.
• Code: Bellevue City Code 4.03.025, 4.03.030 (Chapter 4.03, Tax Administrative Code). Title 5, Business Licenses and Regulations, checked and contains no peddler/solicitor chapter.
• Read it yourself: Bellevue City Code Title 5, Business Licenses and Regulations · City of Bellevue, Regulatory Licenses · Bellevue City Code 4.03.025 and 4.03.030 · Bellevue City Code 3.43.280, Soliciting (parks) · Bellevue City Code Title 10, Chapter 10.06, Miscellaneous Offenses (checked; no solicitation section) · Bellevue City Code Title 9, Health and Safety (chapter list checked) · checked 19 September 2026

Ask the clerk, and write the answer down: Is there any police-administered solicitor or canvasser registration outside the municipal code that a door-to-door sales crew must complete? Are there set knocking hours in practice even though none are written in the code? What the general business registration fee is this year after the annual adjustment (the code prints $80.00), and whether it is per company or per rep. Clerk’s name ______________   Direct line ______________   Date called ______________