Colorado Springs, Colorado: door-to-door solicitor permit

• The answer: No city solicitor or peddler license. The City Clerk’s Business Licensing page says that, other than liquor and marijuana, “only those business types listed below require a business license issued by the City Clerk’s Office,” and door-to-door sales is not on the list. The city code matches: Chapter 2, Article 3 (Sales of Goods and Services) licenses massage, private security, tree service, trash haulers, escort services, mobile food vendors, pawnbrokers, going-out-of-business sales, taxicabs, funeral escorts, pedal-cabs and bicycle-share, and has no peddler, solicitor or canvasser part.
• Where it comes from: The City Clerk’s Office, 30 South Nevada Avenue, Suite 101, handles business licensing and publishes the list of licensed business types.
• Fee: None. There is no solicitor license to pay for. The clerk’s page quotes fees only for the license types it lists.
• Hours you may knock: The code sets no knocking hours in the sections read. The one solicitation section, 9.2.111, regulates aggressive soliciting and has no clock times.
• Code: Colorado Springs City Code, current through Ord. 26-23, passed June 9, 2026: Chapter 2, Article 3 (Sales of Goods and Services) for licensed business types, and 9.2.111 Solicitation Prohibited in the public offenses chapter.
• Worth knowing: 9.2.111(C)(2) makes it unlawful to keep soliciting on private or residential property after being asked to leave, and says displaying a “No Soliciting” sign counts as that request. The same section defines soliciting as a request “for a gift of money or other thing of value” — donations and panhandling, not sales — so on its text it does not reach a rep selling a service. The clerk’s overview says the city “licenses a limited selection of business types”; a sales tax license could still apply to the company.
• Read it yourself: City of Colorado Springs, Business Licensing · Office of the City Clerk, Business License Overview · Colorado Springs City Code 9.2.111 Solicitation Prohibited · Colorado Springs City Code Chapter 2, Article 3 Sales of Goods and Services · Colorado Springs City Code, overview and currency statement · checked 19 September 2026

Ask the clerk, and write the answer down: Whether any city registration or sales tax license is required for a company selling door to door at residences; Whether the city enforces “No Soliciting” signs against commercial sales reps, given 9.2.111 defines soliciting as asking for a gift; Whether any city rule sets hours for door-to-door sales. Clerk’s name ______________   Direct line ______________   Date called ______________