O'Fallon, Missouri: 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: Yes — a peddler license (identification card) for each rep, under Municipal Code 605.080, per the city's own Peddler License Application. The city's definitions sheet calls anyone who knocks uninvited to sell a good or service a peddler; its solicitor is the donation seeker or handbill distributor. The code chapter itself could not be read.
• Where it comes from: The City of O'Fallon — the Peddler License Application is posted on the city's Economic Development page. The form names Municipal Code 605.080.
• Fee: The city's Peddler License Application says the fee for the issuance of each identification card shall be $7.50 per day. A merchant with a place of business in O'Fallon, paying city taxes and holding a current city business license, gets up to twenty (20) card-days per calendar year without the per-day fee. The code's own fee line could not be read to confirm the figure.
• Hours you may knock: Per the application form: 9:00 A.M. and 8:00 P.M. in Central Standard Time, and 9:00 A.M. and 9:00 P.M. in Central Daylight Time. The code section was not read.
• What the rep carries: The license, carried while peddling and available on request to any city officer or any person approached (application form).
• What takes the time: A criminal history name search report from the Missouri Highway Patrol, issued within one year, plus a similar report from every state the rep has lived in over the past seven years, and a list of all convictions for seven (7) years. A felony or a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude in that window means denial. The company needs its Missouri sales tax license and must be current on city obligations. No processing time is published.
• Code: City of O'Fallon Municipal Code, Chapter 605 — Licensing and Regulation of Occupations (605.080 cited on the forms). The eCode360 text could not be read.
• Worth knowing: Front door (main entrance) only, and no knocking on a door with a "No Solicitors, No Peddlers" sticker; subdivisions and condominium complexes that post a no soliciting or peddling sign are off limits (application form).
• Read it yourself: City of O'Fallon — Economic Development (license applications) · City of O'Fallon — Application for Peddler License (PDF) · City of O'Fallon — Canvasser, peddler and solicitor definitions (PDF) · O'Fallon Code, Licensing and Regulation of Occupations (not read, host blocked) · checked 21 September 2026

Ask the clerk, and write the answer down:

• Whether the peddler card fee today is $7.50 per day (as on the application form) and whether it is per rep per day
• The hours as written in the code (605.080), and whether they differ from the form
• How long approval takes once the background reports are in

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