Pueblo, Colorado: door-to-door solicitor permit

• The answer: Yes — a solicitor's license, one per rep, plus an identification card each rep keeps on their person. It is unlawful for any solicitor to engage in such business within the City without first obtaining a license (9-7-31(b)). Pueblo's definition lands squarely on fiber, solar and security sales: a "solicitor" is anyone over sixteen going from house to house "taking or attempting to take orders for sale of goods, wares and merchandise, or personal property of any nature whatsoever for future delivery or for services to be furnished or performed in the future," and the word solicitor includes the word canvasser (9-7-32(b)). A rep who carries and hands over the goods on the spot is a peddler instead (9-7-32(a)).
• Where it comes from: The City Clerk, on a sworn written application on the City's form. The Clerk refers it to the Chief of Police for investigation, and the Clerk executes and delivers the license once the Chief endorses approval (9-7-33, 9-7-34). The city's Sales Tax Division handles the separate business license side.
• Fee: Solicitors pay one dollar ($1.00) per year or portion thereof for each person proposing to solicit, and that fee is not prorated (9-7-35(b)). On top of it, a fee of one dollar ($1.00) is paid to the City Clerk at the time of filing to cover the cost of investigating the application; it is not refunded if the license is denied, but may be applied against the applicable fee if the license is granted (9-7-33(8)). If your reps carry stock and sell it on the spot they are peddlers, not solicitors, and the rate is three dollars ($3.00) per day, twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per month, or fifty dollars ($50.00) per year for each person proposing to peddle on foot (9-7-35(a)). Separately, the company needs a city license from the Sales Tax Division; the city's Business Licenses page says there is a base fee of $50 for a business license.
• Hours you may knock: Pueblo publishes none. Sections 9-7-31 to 9-7-40 set no start or finish time, and the General Offense Code in Title XI, Chapter 1 has no knocking-hours section and no "No Soliciting" sign offense. Ask the clerk before assuming a window.
• What the rep carries: An identification card issued by the City Clerk for each individual licensed, reading "Licensed Solicitor" with the period of the license and the license number. It stays upon the person of the licensee the whole time they are soliciting and is shown on the request of any citizen or police officer (9-7-36). Reps working from a vehicle also get two license plates per vehicle, attached to both sides.
• What takes the time: The police investigation. The Chief of Police investigates every statement in the application plus the applicant's business and moral character, and a felony conviction, or a misdemeanor or ordinance violation involving moral turpitude, is sufficient grounds for disapproval (9-7-34). The code sets no deadline for that investigation, so build slack into the start date. The application itself asks for the employer's name and address with credentials establishing the exact relationship, and a statement of any conviction (9-7-33(4), (7)). A renewal filed while the license is still in effect needs no new application and no further investigation fee (9-7-38).
• Code: Pueblo Municipal Code Title IX (Licenses and Permits), Chapter 7, sections 9-7-31 to 9-7-40. Municode shows the Charter and Code as codified through Ordinance No. 11209, adopted June 25, 2026 (Supp. No. 110).
• Worth knowing: A license never runs past December 31 of the year it was issued, whatever period it names (9-7-37), so a crew that starts in the fall re-licenses in January. Licenses are nontransferable — a rep who quits does not hand the card to the next hire (9-7-37). The article does not apply to salespeople selling to retail or wholesale stores for resale, or to people examined and licensed, or bonded and licensed, as salesmen under state law (9-7-39(a)). Conviction of any violation of 9-7-31 to 9-7-40 automatically forfeits the license, and each solicitation or sale may be deemed a separate offense (9-7-40(b)).
• Read it yourself: Pueblo Municipal Code 9-7-31 to 9-7-40, Peddlers and solicitors · Pueblo Municipal Code Title XI, Chapter 1 — General Offense Code · Pueblo Charter and Code, title page · City of Pueblo — Business Licenses · City of Pueblo — Licensing · checked 20 September 2026

Ask the clerk, and write the answer down:

• How long the Chief of Police investigation is taking right now
• Whether the employer can file for a whole crew at once or each rep files their own sworn application
• Whether a door-to-door crew needs the sales/use tax license as well as the solicitor license, and what the base fee covers

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