Savannah, Georgia: door-to-door solicitor permit

• The answer: Yes, a license, per rep. The code's "transient peddler" definition is "any person who is a nonresident of the city ... who engages in the business of selling or offering to sell goods or services by going from place to place within the city" (6-1602) — that covers a fiber, solar, pest or security rep working a neighborhood door to door — and "no person, firm or corporation shall operate a business as a transient merchant or peddler within the city unless a license for such business has first been granted by the city" (6-1603).
• Where it comes from: The City Treasurer's office receives the application and issues the license (6-1604, 6-1614); the Inspections Department must also approve it (6-1608).
• Fee: $20.00 per day for a nonresident ("transient") peddler, up to a maximum of $100.00 for any one continuous period of business in a calendar year, unless the annual revenue ordinance sets a higher fee (6-1610). A Savannah-resident ("local") peddler instead pays whatever the annual revenue ordinance sets for local merchants generally (6-1611) — that dollar figure was not found on a primary page in this session.
• Hours you may knock: Not published. This article (6-1601 to 6-1617) has no clock-time knocking-hours section; it regulates where and how a peddler may operate, not when.
• What the rep carries: "Each peddler ... shall be required to display a valid license or permit issued by the city, or a copy thereof, in a manner which can be clearly observed by any person being solicited" (6-1615).
• What takes the time: The Inspections Department must review and approve the application for zoning and safety-code compliance before a license issues (6-1608); a license can be denied for a false statement in the application, or for the applicant's felony or moral-turpitude conviction within the past 5 years (6-1607).
• Code: Savannah Code of Ordinances, Part 6, Chapter 1, Article T, Transient Merchants, Peddlers, Solicitors (§§ 6-1601–6-1617), "The Transient Merchant, Peddler, and Solicitor Ordinance of 1980" (6-1601).
• Worth knowing: A peddler may not go onto a property posted with a "No Soliciting" sign, and must leave immediately if the owner, occupant or person in charge asks (6-1615). A peddler may not set up a stand or booth on a street or sidewalk without the city manager's written permission (6-1615), and may not sell or solicit at all in the public right-of-way of Broughton Street or its cross-street intersections (6-1615). A separate, no-fee "permit" category covers solicitors for charitable/religious organizations or for magazine subscriptions (6-1602, 6-1613) — that is a different track from the peddler's license and does not apply to a for-profit commercial sales rep.
• Read it yourself: Savannah Code of Ordinances, Article T, Transient Merchants, Peddlers, Solicitors · checked 19 September 2026

Ask the clerk, and write the answer down: The current local-peddler license fee under the annual revenue ordinance, for a Savannah-resident rep; Whether one "transient peddler" license can cover a whole out-of-town crew, or each rep needs their own $20/day license; Whether any knocking-hours restriction exists outside this article (e.g. in the noise ordinance) that would apply to door-to-door solicitation. Clerk’s name ______________   Direct line ______________   Date called ______________