Raleigh, North Carolina: door-to-door solicitor permit

• The answer: No door-to-door solicitor permit appears in the Raleigh City Code. Part 12 (Licensing and Regulation), Chapter 2, Article A, General Regulations, is entirely reserved (12-2001 to 12-2020), and Part 13 (Offenses) has no residential solicitation section. What the code does regulate is the public right-of-way: it is unlawful "to solicit or attempt to solicit business of any kind on the streets or sidewalks of the City" (12-1026(a)).
• Where it comes from: No office issues a solicitor permit under the code. The annual peddler permit in 12-1024 is for vending in the streets, not for knocking on doors.
• Fee: None published for door-to-door sales, because the code creates no permit for it. The street peddler permit fee is "as set forth in the City of Raleigh Fee Schedule" (12-1024(b)(1)); that is a different activity.
• Hours you may knock: The code sets no knocking hours.
• What the rep carries: Nothing prescribed by the code for door-to-door reps.
• What takes the time: Nothing in the code: no background check, bond or badge for door-to-door reps.
• Code: Raleigh City Code 12-1024 (street peddlers), 12-1026 (soliciting business on streets or sidewalks), 12-1027 (subscriptions). Municode reads "Codified through Ordinance No. (2025) 802, enacted October 21, 2025. (Supp. No. 69)".
• Worth knowing: Keep the pitch on the customer's property, not on the sidewalk: 12-1026 makes street and sidewalk solicitation of business a misdemeanor that can also draw a civil penalty. Selling publication subscriptions on streets, sidewalks or in city parks is separately unlawful (12-1027).
• Read it yourself: Raleigh City Code Part 12, Ch. 1, Art. B (12-1024, 12-1026, 12-1027) · Raleigh City Code Part 12, Ch. 2, Art. A (reserved) · Raleigh City Code Part 13, Offenses · checked 18 September 2026

Ask the clerk, and write the answer down: Does the city require any registration for commercial door-to-door sales that is not in the City Code? Does Raleigh enforce posted "No Soliciting" signs under any ordinance, or only as trespass? Does the police department want advance notice when a sales team works a neighborhood? Clerk’s name ______________   Direct line ______________   Date called ______________