Overland Park, Kansas: door-to-door solicitor permit

• The answer: No permit or license is required. The city's Transient Merchant license chapter (5.70) expressly does not cover door-to-door sales — it says door-to-door "sales, canvassing, or solicitations" are exempt because they are "regulated by 5.64 of this Code" (5.70.025(A)) — and Chapter 5.64 (Solicitors), the chapter that does regulate door-to-door sales, sets rules of conduct only, with no license, permit or fee. What still applies: the 5.64 conduct rules bind anyone taking orders for goods or services door to door (5.64.010(J)), the knocking hours below and the "No Solicitors" sign rule. The city's Business Licenses page says "Overland Park does not require a general occupational business license."
• Where it comes from: There is no issuing office, because no permit exists for this activity. Chapter 5.64 references the City Clerk only for the optional "No Solicitors" decal a resident can post (5.64.020(A)).
• Fee: None. Chapter 5.64 (Solicitors) sets no fee, and Chapter 5.70 (Transient Merchants) — the chapter that does carry a license fee — does not apply to door-to-door solicitors (5.70.025(A)).
• Hours you may knock: 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. local time, every day — soliciting outside that window is unlawful (5.64.020(C)).
• What the rep carries: No badge or ID card is required by the code. A solicitor must truthfully disclose, at the outset of the call, their own name and the name of the company, product or organization they represent (5.64.020(G)).
• Code: Overland Park Municipal Code Chapter 5.64, Solicitors (§§ 5.64.000–5.64.030), and Chapter 5.70, Transient Merchants (§ 5.70.025, the exemption for door-to-door sales).
• Worth knowing: A rep may not knock at a residence or a multi-family building entrance posted with a "No Solicitors" sign or the City Clerk's official decal (5.64.020(A)–(B)); may not call again at the same residence within 14 days without an invitation (5.64.020(E)); must leave if asked (5.64.020(D)); and may not solicit at all if convicted of a felony, or a misdemeanor or ordinance violation involving force, violence, moral turpitude, deceit or fraud, within the past 5 years (5.64.020(J)).
• Read it yourself: Overland Park Municipal Code 5.64 Solicitors · Overland Park Municipal Code 5.70 Transient Merchants (5.70.025 Exemptions) · City of Overland Park — Business Licenses · checked 19 September 2026

Ask the clerk, and write the answer down: Whether the City Clerk treats a door-to-door crew as a Transient Merchant (Chapter 5.70) in any case, given the Business Licenses page says that license covers "any temporary or transient business to sell goods or services" while 5.70.025(A) exempts door-to-door sales; Whether the City Clerk keeps a checkable list of addresses that have requested the official "No Solicitors" decal. Clerk’s name ______________   Direct line ______________   Date called ______________