Hollywood, Florida: 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: Partial. Hollywood's Chapter 122, "Peddlers, Solicitors, Panhandlers and Itinerant Merchants," was read in full and has no permit, application or fee section for commercial door-to-door sales — its General Provisions only require a business-ID sign on vehicles used for solicitation (122.01) and ban ambulatory peddling within 300 feet of a school or church (122.03). Everything else in that chapter (122.25–122.33) is a separate permit scheme for charitable solicitation only, which is out of scope here. A general city Local Business Tax Receipt is presumably still required to operate any business in the city, but no solicitor-specific classification or fee was found.
• Where it comes from: Hollywood Code of Ordinances, Chapter 122, Peddlers, Solicitors, Panhandlers and Itinerant Merchants, and Chapter 112, Advertising.
• Fee: Not published. No solicitor- or peddler-specific permit fee appears in Chapter 122. A general Local Business Tax Receipt classification list (151.024) was checked and does not list a "solicitor" or "direct sales" line either.
• Hours you may knock: Not published. Chapter 122's commercial provisions set no clock-time restriction. (The panhandling division of the same chapter, 122.50–122.54, is unrelated to commercial sales and out of scope.)
• Code: Hollywood Code of Ordinances, Chapter 122 §§ 122.01–122.03, and Chapter 112 § 112.02. Read via American Legal Publishing.
• Worth knowing: Section 112.02(C) makes it "unlawful for any such uninvited solicitors, peddlers, vendors, itinerant merchants, or other door-to-door canvassers or hawkers to visit, go upon, or knock, ring doorbells, or make any other noise at any premises" that display a posted "no solicitation, no distribution" sign — the city even supplies a printable version of that sign to residents. Treat every posted sign as binding regardless of any permit your reps carry.
• Read it yourself: Hollywood Code of Ordinances, Chapter 122 · Hollywood Code of Ordinances § 112.02 · Hollywood Code of Ordinances § 151.024 · checked 19 September 2026

Ask the clerk, and write the answer down: Does the city require any permit, registration or background check before a company's reps go door-to-door selling a service like fiber internet, beyond a standard Local Business Tax Receipt? Is there a citywide knocking-hours rule that isn't in the code (e.g., a police department policy)? What is the cost and classification of the Local Business Tax Receipt a door-to-door sales company would need to hold? Clerk’s name ______________   Direct line ______________   Date called ______________