Mount Pleasant, South Carolina: 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: At least a Town of Mount Pleasant business license. Every person doing business for gain in the town must hold one and pay the annual license tax (110.01), and a peddler, transient or non-resident must carry the license on his person or in the vehicle used in the business (110.08(A)). Whether the town also has a separate door-to-door solicitor permit could not be read — the town's online code host blocked the reader. Check the City Clerk Call Sheet.
• Where it comes from: The town's Business License Division, which issues the license under Chapter 110 (the License Official classifies each business, 110.02).
• Fee: Not read for door-to-door sales. The business license tax depends on the business's NAICS rate class and gross income (Appendix A), and the schedule says all taxes and rates are doubled for nonresidents and itinerants with no fixed principal place of business in the town. Which class a door-to-door company falls in is the License Official's call.
• Hours you may knock: Not read. The business license ordinance sets no knocking hours, and any solicitor chapter in the town code could not be opened.
• What the rep carries: The business license, on the person or in the vehicle used in the business, ready for inspection by any authorized agent of the town (110.08(A)).
• What takes the time: Not published in the business license ordinance. No background check or processing time was read.
• Code: Mount Pleasant Code of Ordinances, Chapter 110 — Business Licenses, as adopted by Ord. 25052 (Exhibit A, with Appendix A rate schedule). The code itself is hosted on American Legal Publishing, which was not readable.
• Read it yourself: Town of Mount Pleasant Ord. 25052 — Chapter 110 Business Licenses (Exhibit A) · Mount Pleasant Code of Ordinances (American Legal Publishing) · checked 21 September 2026

Ask the clerk, and write the answer down:

• Whether the town requires a door-to-door solicitor or peddler permit on top of the business license, and whether it is per rep
• Which business license rate class applies to a door-to-door sales company, and the fee for an out-of-town company
• Whether the town code sets knocking hours or a No Soliciting sign rule

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