Hammond, Indiana: 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: Not confirmed. The City Controller issues a Peddler & Pop-Up Vendor license, approved by the Controller and the Police Department, and the application asks for a description of the goods, wares, property or services to be sold, but the code chapter that defines a peddler, and whether door-to-door order-taking needs this license, could not be read: the city's code host blocked automated reading. For the full list of questions, use the City Clerk Call Sheet.
• Where it comes from: The City Controller's business licensing, City of Hammond, 5925 Calumet Avenue. The Business Licenses page lists Controller and Police Dept as the approvals for Peddler & Pop-Up Vendor.
• Fee: $105.00, per the city's Business Licenses page and the Peddler & Pop-Up Vendor License Application. Application and processing fees are nonrefundable. Whether the fee is per rep or per company is not stated.
• Hours you may knock: Not read. The code chapter was blocked, and the Business Licenses page and application do not list door-to-door hours.
• What the rep carries: Not read. The code chapter was blocked.
• What takes the time: Police Department review and approval (per the application's office-use block and the Business Licenses page). The application asks about any felony, misdemeanor or ordinance conviction and for two character references. No processing time is published.
• Code: Hammond Code of Ordinances, hosted on American Legal Publishing (linked from the City Clerk's City Ordinances page). The Business Licenses page lists no regulating ordinance for Peddler & Pop-Up Vendor, and the chapter was not read.
• Worth knowing: Licenses expire annually on December 31, whatever the date issued, and a new application is required each calendar year (per the application).
• Read it yourself: City of Hammond — Business Licenses · City of Hammond — Peddler & Pop-Up Vendor License Application (PDF) · City of Hammond — City Ordinances · checked 22 September 2026

Ask the clerk, and write the answer down:

• Whether a door-to-door rep taking orders for a service (such as fiber internet) needs the Peddler & Pop-Up Vendor license, and whether it is one per rep or one per company
• What hours door-to-door sales are allowed, and the code section
• Whether reps must carry or wear the license or an ID badge
• How long the Police Department review usually takes

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