Longmont, Colorado: door-to-door solicitor permit

• The answer: No solicitor permit, and Longmont is unusual in that it has a chapter called Solicitors that licenses nobody. Chapter 6.76 defines a solicitor and then sets only two rules of conduct — obey the sign, and leave when asked — with no application, no badge and no fee. What a selling company does need is a sales and use tax license: it is unlawful for any person to engage in business in the city without first having obtained one (6.08.010), and "engaged in business in the city" expressly includes a company that "sends one or more employees, agents or commissioned salespersons into the city to solicit business" (6.08.005). One license for the company, nothing per rep.
• Where it comes from: The director of finance, on the director's application form (6.08.010). Licenses generally are issued and signed by the city clerk or designee under the seal of the city (6.04.050).
• Fee: A one-time application processing fee for the sales and use tax license of $25.00, paid to the director of finance on application (6.08.020). The term of the license is perpetual, so there is no renewal charge — it ends only on revocation or when the business is abandoned (6.08.020). Chapter 6.76 charges nothing, because it licenses nothing.
• Hours you may knock: Longmont publishes none. Chapter 6.76 names no start or finish time, and Title 10 (Public Peace, Morals and Welfare) has no knocking-hours section — its solicitation references are to prostitution and to licensed drinking premises. Ask the clerk before assuming a window.
• What the rep carries: The code names nothing a door-to-door rep must wear or show. There is no badge, no photo ID card and no per-rep registration. The company's sales and use tax license is posted at the place of business it was issued for, which is written for a storefront, not a knocker (6.08.040).
• What takes the time: Almost nothing. The sales and use tax license needs an application and the processing fee, with no background check, no bond, no fingerprinting and no photographs anywhere in Chapter 6.08 or 6.76, and no published processing deadline. Because the license is perpetual, a crew that worked Longmont before may already be covered.
• Code: Longmont Municipal Code Title 6, Chapter 6.76 (Solicitors), 6.76.010 to 6.76.050; Chapter 6.08 (Sales and Use Tax Licenses), 6.08.005 to 6.08.040; Chapter 6.04 (Licenses Generally). Municode shows the code as codified through Ordinance No. O-2026-39, enacted June 23, 2026 (Supp. No. 9).
• Worth knowing: The sign rule has real teeth here and it reaches the manager, not just the rep: it is unlawful for any person to engage, or cause any other person to engage as agent or employee, as a solicitor by soliciting from a private residence displaying "No Solicitors" or "No Soliciting" (6.76.020). Refusing to leave immediately when the occupant asks is a separate offense whether or not a sign was up, punishable by a fine not less than $50.00 and up to $300.00, or imprisonment up to 90 days, or both (6.76.030, 6.76.050). In an apartment or condominium complex with a common entrance hall, knocking or ringing any unit counts as soliciting from a private residence (6.76.010).
• Read it yourself: Longmont Municipal Code Title 6 — Business Taxes, Licenses and Regulations · Longmont Municipal Code Title 10 — Public Peace, Morals and Welfare · Longmont Code of Ordinances, title page · checked 20 September 2026

Ask the clerk, and write the answer down:

• Whether an out-of-town crew needs the sales and use tax license or only the company that employs them
• Whether Longmont Public Safety enforces any hours-of-knocking rule that is not in the code
• Whether the city keeps a do-not-knock list on top of the sign rule

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