Door-to-Door Permit Rules in Georgia: 6 Cities Checked

Athens

Permit: Yes — an itinerant merchant permit for the company, plus an individual identification badge for every rep.
Fee: $80.00 vendor permit fee plus a $20.00 ID badge for each person, per the county's application form revised 07/01/2026. The code's own fee table still prints 75.00 for the itinerant merchant permit and 20.00 for the badge (6-6-2(g)); the form is the newer number. Fees are not prorated or refundable (6-6-2(g)).
Hours you may knock: The code sets no knocking hours. Chapter 6-6 has clock times only for the farmers market and food trucks. Itinerant sellers may not make noise that violates the noise control ordinance (6-6-6(c)).
Checked: 19 September 2026

Permit: Yes. It is unlawful to make door to door sales of consumer goods or services without first getting a permit from the city (30-611(a)).
Fee: Company or individual: $100.00 application fee plus a $500.00 annual permit fee. Each employee, agent or independent contractor working for a company: $50.00 application fee plus a $170.00 annual permit fee (30-615).
Hours you may knock: 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. The code bars knocking between 8:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m. on any day, licensed or unlicensed (30-597).
Checked: 18 September 2026

Permit: No specific permit is set for a commercial door-to-door sales rep.
Fee: No solicitor fee exists, because no solicitor permit exists. The Business Tax Certificate carries a $110.00 administrative fee on every account, plus occupation tax (2-1-3(a)). The regulatory fee list in 2-1-3(c) prints "Temporary and Transient Vendors $195.00 per day" — that line belongs to the below-retail-price transient vendor category in 6-5-3, not a general sales rep.
Hours you may knock: None found. Checked Title 6, Chapter 5 (Peddlers and Solicitors), the Title 3 (Public Safety) chapter list and every section heading in Title 3, Chapter 7 (Offenses), and Title 7, Chapter 2 (Nuisances) — no solicitation-hours section.
Checked: 19 September 2026

Permit: No door-to-door permit.
Fee: None for door-to-door solicitation itself. For the general business license the city's page lists an administrative fee of $75.00 upon issuance, plus occupation tax on gross receipts; the page gives the rate only as a range and says to see the Occupation Tax Section for details.
Hours you may knock: None found. Neither Chapter 16 (Peddlers and Solicitors) nor Chapter 14 (Offenses and Miscellaneous Provisions) sets clock-time knocking hours for commercial door-to-door solicitation.
Checked: 19 September 2026

Permit: Yes — a permit, per rep.
Fee: Not published in the code. Section 7-484(b) only says "all applications shall be accompanied by the fee established by the mayor and commission as it may be amended from time to time" — the dollar amount is set on a separate administrative fee schedule that was not found on a primary page in this session. Anyone whose solicitation involves cash deposits, C.O.D. orders, or financing for future delivery/service must also post a $5,000.00 bond for the fiscal year (7-484(c)).
Hours you may knock: 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. — soliciting between 8:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m. is unlawful (7-489(a)) — and never on Sunday or any federal or state holiday (7-489(b)).
Checked: 19 September 2026

Permit: Yes, a license, per rep.
Fee: $20.00 per day for a nonresident ("transient") peddler, up to a maximum of $100.00 for any one continuous period of business in a calendar year, unless the annual revenue ordinance sets a higher fee (6-1610). A Savannah-resident ("local") peddler instead pays whatever the annual revenue ordinance sets for local merchants generally (6-1611) — that dollar figure was not found on a primary page in this session.
Hours you may knock: Not published. This article (6-1601 to 6-1617) has no clock-time knocking-hours section; it regulates where and how a peddler may operate, not when.
Checked: 19 September 2026

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