Brooklyn Park, Minnesota: door-to-door solicitor permit

• The answer: Yes — a peddler/solicitor license from the city. The city's Business Licenses page and application define a peddler/solicitor as anyone going door to door selling items they carry, or taking orders for products or services delivered or performed later. Each peddler/solicitor gets their own identification badge, so it is per rep. Non-profit or exempt organizations and free-speech activity need no license.
• Where it comes from: The Rental & Business Licensing Division of the Community Development Department, 5200 85th Avenue North, BPLICENSE@BrooklynPark.Org; the Police Department background release is part of the application.
• Fee: Per the city's application: a $200.00 Non-Refundable Background Investigation Fee, then a license fee due when the background check is complete — 30 Days | $100.00, 6 Months | $200.00, or 1 Year | $300.00. License fees are not transferable or refundable, and a $50.00 replacement badge fee applies. The form states the fees without saying whether they are per person; each applicant fills out their own form.
• Hours you may knock: Permitted peddling/soliciting hours are 8:00 A.M. to 8:00 P.M., per the city's application.
• What the rep carries: The identification badge issued by the Business Licensing Division, displayed and presented on request; it expires December 31st regardless of the issue date (application).
• What takes the time: All applications are subject to a 30-business day approval period (application). Each applicant files a Background Investigation Release Form with seven years of addresses, a copy of a valid government-issued ID, a five-year conviction statement, every city where they held a peddler/solicitor license in the past two years, a Minnesota Department of Revenue certificate of compliance and a workers' compensation certificate.
• Code: Brooklyn Park City Code on American Legal Publishing. The host blocked the reader twice, so no section numbers or currency date are given here; everything on this card is from the city's own licensing page and application.
• Worth knowing: The application warns that conducting business so as to annoy others, become a nuisance or obstruct a street or public place may lead to revocation and denial of future requests. The application's footer reads "FORM UPDATED 09/2018" although the file is named for 2025.
• Read it yourself: City of Brooklyn Park — Peddler/Solicitor Application (PDF) · City of Brooklyn Park — Business Licenses (Peddler/solicitor) · Brooklyn Park City Code (American Legal — blocked) · checked 22 September 2026

Ask the clerk, and write the answer down:

• Whether the $200.00 background fee and the license fee are charged per rep or per company
• Whether the 30-business-day approval period can be shortened for a team, and whether reps can be added later
• The City Code sections for the license, the hours and any no-soliciting sign rule

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