Concord, North Carolina: 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: No permit section was found in the current code. The city's privilege license article (Chapter 18, Article II, 18-17 to 18-27) was repealed by Ord. No. 17-90 in August 2017 and is now marked Reserved. What is left is Article II-A, conduct rules for solicitors, peddlers and itinerant merchants. Those rules still speak of "the license required by this section" (18-28), but no section in force requires one. Confirm with the city before a team knocks.
• Where it comes from: Nothing to pull was found. The city publishes no solicitor permit page that could be located.
• Fee: None found. The fee section the code used to point to (18-27) is part of the repealed article.
• Hours you may knock: The code sets none. Article II-A has no time-of-day rule, and Chapter 42 (Offenses) covers only soliciting and begging in public places.
• What the rep carries: Photo identification. On request of any customer or any revenue or law enforcement officer, a solicitor gives a name and permanent address and shows a valid driver's license, state special identification card, military identification or passport; a corporation gives its name, registered agent and registered office (18-28).
• Code: Concord Code of Ordinances, Chapter 18, Article II-A — Additional Ordinances for Solicitors, Peddlers, Itinerant Merchants, Specialty Market Operators (18-28 to 18-36). Municode shows the code as codified through Ordinance No. 25-117, enacted December 11, 2025 (Supp. No. 53, Update 1).
• Worth knowing: City policy leaves the door to the occupant (18-30). A waterproof card of about three by four inches at the main entrance reading "NO SOLICITORS INVITED" is the official notice (18-31). Every solicitor must look for it and, if it is there, "immediately and peacefully depart," registered or not (18-32(a)). Ringing the bell or knocking in defiance of the card is unlawful and a nuisance (18-33). A rep asked to leave by the occupant leaves (18-32(b)).
• Read it yourself: Concord Code, Chapter 18 — Businesses, Articles II and II-A · Concord Code, Chapter 42 — Offenses and Miscellaneous Provisions · checked 19 September 2026

Ask the clerk, and write the answer down:

• Whether the city requires any permit, license or police registration for commercial door-to-door sales since Article II was repealed
• Whether any knocking hours are enforced
• What "the license required by this section" in 18-28 refers to today

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