Palmdale, California: 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: No door-to-door solicitor permit was found in the Palmdale Municipal Code. No title has a peddler, solicitor, canvasser or transient merchant chapter. The one permit with "solicitor" in its name, the pedestrian solicitor permit (5.04.470), is a vending permit: it covers a person selling goods or merchandise from their person "on a public street, private street open to the public, or other public property," not a rep knocking on a front door to take an order. What still applies: the city's general business license, required of any person doing business in the city (3.44.040), and a rep with no fixed place of business must carry it (3.44.110(B)).
• Where it comes from: The Business License Division issues the general business license (applications run through Palmdale.HdLGov.com) and the vehicle operator and pedestrian solicitor vending permits. No office issues a door-to-door solicitor permit because the code does not set one up.
• Fee: None for knocking; the code names no door-to-door permit. The general business license tax amount was not read this session and is not stated here.
• Hours you may knock: Not set. No section in Title 5 (Business Licenses, Taxes and Regulations) or Title 9 (Public Peace, Morals and Welfare) fixes hours for door-to-door sales.
• What the rep carries: The company's city business license. A person required to have a business license who has no fixed place of business "shall carry such license at all times when conducting the business activity" and show it to a city official on request (3.44.110(B)-(C)). No badge is named.
• Code: Palmdale Municipal Code Chapter 3.44, Business License Tax (3.44.040, 3.44.110); Chapter 5.04, Business Regulation (5.04.150, businesses requiring a business permit; 5.04.470, mobile vending).
• Worth knowing: Trespass signs bind: no one may enter private property not open to the public without consent where the code's "THIS PROPERTY CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC" signs are posted (9.44.030). Chapter 9.51 covers aggressive panhandling, not sales.
• Read it yourself: Palmdale Municipal Code (title list) · Palmdale Municipal Code Title 5 (chapter list) · Palmdale Municipal Code Chapter 5.04, Business Regulation · Palmdale Municipal Code Chapter 3.44, Business License Tax · Palmdale Municipal Code Title 9 (chapter list) · Palmdale Municipal Code Chapter 9.44, Trespass on Private Property · City of Palmdale — Business License · checked 19 September 2026

Ask the clerk, and write the answer down: Does the Business License Division treat a for-profit door-to-door sales crew as needing anything beyond the general business license? The business license tax for an out-of-town company with reps in Palmdale, and whether each rep needs a copy; Does the city enforce any hours for door-to-door sales? Does a No Soliciting sign carry any weight under the code, or only the 9.44.030 trespass sign? Clerk’s name ______________   Direct line ______________   Date called ______________