Long Beach, California: door-to-door solicitor permit

• The answer: Yes — a city business license, taxed under the Peddling category. There is no separate solicitor permit, badge or registration. The tax code defines "peddling" as taking or soliciting orders for goods or services door to door between residences (3.80.180), taxes it as its own category (3.80.253), and makes it unlawful to do any business in the city without a business license (3.80.210). The residential curfew in Chapter 5.66 also applies.
• Where it comes from: Long Beach Municipal Code Chapter 3.80, Business License Tax, and Chapter 5.66, Peddlers. Business licenses come from Financial Management.
• Fee: The city's rate table effective July 1, 2026 to June 30, 2027 lists Peddling at 180.88 dollars per day; the per-year figure on the same line is misprinted, so get it from the city. Every application also carries a $4 state-mandated ADA fee. The code's base figures are $905.80 annually or $90.58 each day, stated in year-2000 dollars and adjusted since (3.80.253).
• Hours you may knock: No peddling in any area zoned residential "from eight (8:00) p.m. until nine (9:00) a.m. of the following day" (5.66.040). Note that Chapter 5.66 defines peddling around selling goods with delivery on the spot, which is narrower than the tax definition.
• What the rep carries: Nothing specified in the code for door-to-door sellers beyond holding the business license.
• What takes the time: Nothing published in the code: no background check, bond or fingerprinting for peddling was found.
• Code: Long Beach Municipal Code 3.80.180, 3.80.210, 3.80.253 and 5.66.010 to 5.66.040. Municode shows the code as "Version: Jun 1, 2026 (current)".
• Worth knowing: A minor under eighteen may not peddle in residential zones after five (5:00) p.m. Pacific Standard Time or seven (7:00) p.m. Pacific Daylight Time unless with an adult (5.66.040). No peddling within one block of school grounds during the school-day hours in 5.66.030.
• Read it yourself: Long Beach Municipal Code Chapter 3.80 · Long Beach Municipal Code Chapter 5.66 · Long Beach Business License Rates, July 1, 2026 to June 30, 2027 · checked 19 September 2026

Ask the clerk, and write the answer down: What is the correct annual Peddling business license tax for 2026-27? The rate table prints a garbled number; Is the Peddling license per company or per rep in the field? Does the 5.66.040 residential curfew apply to reps who only take orders for a service? Clerk’s name ______________   Direct line ______________   Date called ______________