Door-to-Door Permit Rules in Texas: 33 Cities Checked

Abilene

Permit: Yes. It is unlawful to solicit within the City without first obtaining a permit from the City License Officer (the City Secretary), unless exempted by state or federal law (§ 28-2, § 28-11).
Fee: $50.00 for a 30-day original permit (or $100.00 for a 1-year permit, local businesses only), plus $30.00 for each additional solicitor beyond the applicant, per the city's own Solicitation Permit Application form. The code itself (§ 28-15) says only that fees are "determined from time to time and placed on file in the office of the City License Officer."
Hours you may knock: 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. — solicitation at private residences is unlawful between 7:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m. unless the property owner has posted otherwise or given a prior invitation (§ 28-4).
Checked: 19 September 2026

Amarillo

Permit: Yes — every individual who goes door to door peddling for consideration must register with the Amarillo Police Department before starting ( 14-6-57 ).
Fee: $15.50 per individual registration. A local youth organization registering as a group instead pays a single $15.00 fee (14-6-58(a)(5), 14-6-58(b)(2)).
Hours you may knock: 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., Central Time or Central Daylight Time as applicable — no entering the property of a residence outside that window (14-6-60).
Checked: 19 September 2026

Arlington

Permit: Yes — a door-to-door selling license, per person, worn where the public can see it, plus an orange reflective safety vest.
Fee: $10.00 per applicant, paid when the application is filed with the Police Chief (1.04). The license is good for one year (1.05).
Hours you may knock: Not before 9:00 a.m. and not after dusk, and not at any time on a federally designated holiday, unless the occupant invited you first (1.14). The chapter gives no clock time for dusk.
Checked: 18 September 2026

Austin

Partly read: the permit answer is sourced, but the fee or the hours could not be read from the city’s own pages.

Permit: No permit found.
Fee: None published. The code names no permit for commercial door-to-door sales, so there is no fee to cite.
Hours you may knock: The code bars a person who "solicits contributions" from going to the door of a residence between 9:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m. (9-4-22). The section's wording is contributions; the code sets no separate clock for sales calls.
Checked: 18 September 2026

Brownsville

Partly read: the permit answer is sourced, but the fee or the hours could not be read from the city’s own pages.

Permit: Yes — anyone who solicits orders or sells door to door in the city without a fixed local address is a "peddler" and must get a permit from the chief of police before soliciting or selling ( 22-486 , 22-516 ).
Fee: Scaled to how long the permit runs, per the fee table's own figures: $100.00 for one year, 60.00 for six months, 40.00 for three months, 15.00 for one month, 10.00 for one week, 5.00 for one day (22-520).
Hours you may knock: Not published. Article IX sets no clock-time restriction on door-to-door peddling; the city's noise ordinance sets separate "quiet hours" for sound levels (Chapter 46, Article III) but that is not a soliciting-hours rule.
Checked: 19 September 2026

Carrollton

Permit: No permit, license or registration is required.
Fee: None. The code establishes no permit, so there is no fee to pay or fee schedule to check.
Hours you may knock: Monday–Friday: 9:00 a.m. to the earlier of sunset or 8:00 p.m. Saturday–Sunday: 10:00 a.m. to the earlier of sunset or 8:00 p.m. No solicitation at all on federal holidays (§ 113.04(A)).
Checked: 19 September 2026

College Station

Permit: Yes. Anyone 14 or older soliciting an occupant at a residence must first register and get a City-issued identification badge — a certificate of registration is required before any home solicitation (§ 8-184(a)(1), § 8-209).
Fee: $50.00 nonrefundable registration fee plus a $10.00 identification badge fee for the initial 30-day registration ($25.00 plus the $10.00 badge fee to renew), per the City's fee resolution adopted under § 2-117. The code itself (§ 8-210(b)) only says a nonrefundable fee and badge fee, set under § 2-117, is due with the application. The most recent fee resolution located was adopted August 12, 2021 — worth confirming it hasn't been superseded.
Hours you may knock: 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., every day Monday through Sunday, with no home solicitation at all on any federally observed holiday (§ 8-185(a)).
Checked: 19 September 2026

Corpus Christi

Permit: Yes — a permit for the business, plus a city identification card for every individual doing home solicitation.
Fee: $120.00 per year for the permit (38-9(b)), plus $10.00 for each rep's identification card, paid by the permittee; replacement cards are $10.00 each (38-9(d)). So a company pays $120.00 once a year, plus $10.00 for each rep it puts on doors. Any state, federal or third-party background report fees are on the applicant on top of that (38-7). Interstate-commerce solicitors taking orders for future delivery get a certificate of registration instead, for $25.00 (38-4).
Hours you may knock: Not before 9:00 a.m. or after 6:00 p.m. during standard time, and not before 9:00 a.m. or after 7:00 p.m. during Daylight Savings Time, without a prior invitation from the occupants (38-16(1)).
Checked: 18 September 2026

Dallas

Permit: Yes — a certificate of registration, under a chapter the city actually titles Home Solicitations.
Fee: $50, nonrefundable.
Hours you may knock: Not before 9 a.m. or after sunset, Monday through Saturday. Never on a Sunday. Never on ten named holidays.
Checked: 5 September 2026

Denton

Permit: Yes — every home solicitor or itinerant merchant must get an individual permit from the city before soliciting or selling door to door ( 16-91 ).
Fee: $20.00 per applicant, cash, paid with the application — the code itself says the amount is set by city council and on file with the city secretary; the police department's own application form states the number (16-93(b)(j)).
Hours you may knock: 9:00 a.m. to the earlier of dusk or 9:00 p.m., Monday through Friday; 10:00 a.m. to the earlier of dusk or 9:00 p.m. on Saturday or Sunday. Dusk means 30 minutes after sunset (16-73).
Checked: 19 September 2026

El Paso

Permit: Yes — a vendor or solicitor license, per person.
Fee: Annual, per person, set in the code in words (5.15.040): itinerant (non-resident) vendor or solicitor, one hundred dollars per year; a vendor or solicitor using a private motor vehicle for the business, seventy dollars per year; every other person, forty dollars per year. A two-day temporary license for an itinerant is twenty dollars (5.15.070). The city's licensing pages do not list the vendor license fee, so confirm the current figure.
Hours you may knock: Chapter 5.15 sets no knocking hours.
Checked: 18 September 2026

Fort Worth

Permit: Yes — register with Development Services, not the police.
Fee: No registration fee is charged.
Hours you may knock: Not before 9 a.m., and not after 7 p.m. standard time or 8 p.m. daylight time, unless at the occupant’s request.
Checked: 5 September 2026

Frisco

Permit: No permit right now.
Fee: None while the permit requirement is suspended. On the books, the code sets "a nonrefundable application fee of fifty dollars ($50.00)" with each permit application (22-73); it only attaches to a permit application, and the city says it is not requiring one.
Hours you may knock: Monday to Friday: not before 9:00 a.m. and not after the earlier of dusk or 9:00 p.m. Saturday and Sunday: not before 10:00 a.m. and not after the earlier of dusk or 9:00 p.m. Dusk means thirty minutes after sunset. An invitation from the occupant is the only exception (22-92(b)(2); Ord. 14-05-25, Section 4).
Checked: 19 September 2026

Garland

Permit: Yes. A commercial home solicitation permit from the Chief of Police, in the rep's own name: "No person shall engage in a commercial home solicitation without having a valid, current written permit" ( 26.51(A) ).
Fee: $20 including the first person; people 2 to 9 are $15 per person; 10 or more are $10 per person, per the city's Solicitation Permits page and application. The code's Master Fee and Rate Schedule (10.85) lists $20.00 for "Commercial home solicitations and distributions" and ties the $15.00/person and $10.00/person group rates to commercial home distribution groups (26.54(C)); the city page applies the same group rates to solicitation permits. The fee is nonrefundable (26.51(C)).
Hours you may knock: Tied to the sun, not the clock. It is unlawful to solicit "at an unreasonable time," and the code's words are that a time is presumptively unreasonable "if it occurs more than thirty minutes before sunrise and more than thirty minutes before sunset" (26.53(D)). That is the code's own wording; ask the police how they read the evening limit. The clock hours in the same subsection, 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., apply to door-to-door flyer distribution, not in-person sales.
Checked: 19 September 2026

Grand Prairie

Permit: Yes — an itinerant vendor/peddler permit is required before going door to door for a for-profit company with no fixed location in the city ( 20-4 , 20-21 ).
Fee: $50.00 a year, paid in advance, cash — nonrefundable and not prorated (20-25).
Hours you may knock: 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday. No knocking or doorbell-ringing at all on Sunday, New Year's Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day or Christmas Day (20-40).
Checked: 19 September 2026

Houston

Not readable yet: the city’s rules could not be read from a primary source on the date shown.

Permit: Not published. Houston's Code of Ordinances has no chapter that licenses commercial door-to-door sales.
Fee: None published for commercial door-to-door sales, because the code names no permit for it.
Hours you may knock: The code sets no knocking hours for commercial sales. The only solicitation hours in the code are in the charitable chapter (36-72), which does not cover for-profit sales.
Checked: 18 September 2026

Irving

Not readable yet: the city’s rules could not be read from a primary source on the date shown.

Permit: No solicitor or peddler permit was found in Irving's current code.
Fee: Not published. The current code has no solicitor or peddler permit, so it sets no fee.
Hours you may knock: Not published. The current code sets no knocking hours for door-to-door sales.
Checked: 19 September 2026

Killeen

Partly read: the permit answer is sourced, but the fee or the hours could not be read from the city’s own pages.

Permit: Yes — no one may engage in business in the city as an itinerant vendor, merchant or peddler, including door-to-door selling, without a permit from the police department ( 20-41 ).
Fee: 75.00 per permit, per year (the fee schedule's Amount column carries no currency symbol, but the schedule is denominated in dollars), per the city's current Comprehensive Fee Schedule; the code itself only says the fee is paid in cash in advance "as provided in the adopted fee schedule" (20-43).
Hours you may knock: Not published. Chapter 20, Article II sets no clock-time restriction on itinerant/peddler door-to-door sales; the separate Article III (solicitation from public rights-of-way, i.e. standing in the road) is a different activity and not covered by this card.
Checked: 19 September 2026

Laredo

Not readable yet: the city’s rules could not be read from a primary source on the date shown.

Permit: Not published. Laredo's Code of Ordinances has no peddler, solicitor or canvasser chapter for commercial door-to-door sales.
Fee: None published for commercial door-to-door sales, because the code names no permit for it.
Hours you may knock: The code sets no knocking hours for commercial sales. The sunset-to-sunrise rule in 21-252 sits in the donation-solicitation article.
Checked: 19 September 2026

Lewisville

Permit: Yes — a permit per company (with a per-additional-person add-on), issued by the department of community development, before anyone "peddles" or "solicits" door to door (§ 7-26, § 7-27).
Fee: A base fee of 40.00, plus 10.00 for each additional person, per the city's fee schedule (listed there without a dollar sign, but in the same dollar-amount column as every other fee on the page). The code itself just says a fee "set out in section 2-201" (now the separately published fee schedule) is due for each solicitor or peddler, plus a fee for each agent or employee (§ 7-30).
Hours you may knock: Sunset to 8:00 a.m. is off-limits — no entering property, knocking or otherwise disturbing residents in that window, licensed or not (§ 7-37).
Checked: 19 September 2026

Lubbock

Permit: Yes, for door-to-door sales of goods — a peddler license, one per person, plus a city photo ID (8.12.032, 8.12.037).
Fee: $50.00 per person for a thirty-day license. No license runs longer than 30 days, and one license covers one person only (8.12.039).
Hours you may knock: Not published. Article 8.12 sets no knocking hours, and no city page we read states any.
Checked: 19 September 2026

McAllen

Partly read: the permit answer is sourced, but the fee or the hours could not be read from the city’s own pages.

Permit: Likely yes, though the chapter is written mainly for vendors selling from a stand or space rather than pure door-to-door.
Fee: $100.00, paid before the license issues (78-44).
Hours you may knock: Not published. Chapter 78 sets no clock-time restriction on soliciting or selling.
Checked: 19 September 2026

McKinney

Permit: Yes. A solicitor's permit from the Police Department, per rep: "Each person engaged in peddling or soliciting or selling" door to door must have one, and it is personal to the applicant (78-3(a)).
Fee: $35.00 non-refundable application fee for each applicant named on the application, plus $15.00 for each identification card issued, per the city's application packet. The code's fee schedule (Appendix A, Sec. 78-3) lists the same 35.00 and 15.00.
Hours you may knock: 9:00 a.m. to sunset, Monday through Saturday. No soliciting at a private residence after sunset or before 9:00 a.m., and none on Sunday, New Year's Day, Fourth of July, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving or Christmas Day (78-5). Sunset is the National Weather Service time for the city.
Checked: 18 September 2026

Mesquite

Permit: Yes — a home solicitor must carry a valid solicitor's permit issued by the city manager before engaging in any home solicitation transaction ( 8-226 , 8-211 ).
Fee: $35.00 per application, per the city's Comprehensive Fee Schedule (Appendix D, Article XIII, Police). Chapter 8 itself only says the application "shall be accompanied by a nonrefundable application fee" and points to the fee schedule (8-212(b)(h)).
Hours you may knock: 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday. No knocking at all on Sunday, New Year's Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day or Christmas Day (8-227).
Checked: 19 September 2026

Midland

Permit: Yes. It is unlawful to act as a peddler in the city without a license from the police department; each individual peddler must have their own license (§ 5-3-3(A)).
Fee: $4.00 per license, meant to cover the city's cost of processing the application (§ 5-3-5). A peddler whose goods or services never exceed a $20.00 asking price or donation is exempt from the license and fee entirely (§ 5-3-3(B)).
Hours you may knock: 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. most of the year; from November 1 through April 1, the cutoff moves earlier, to 7:30 p.m. (§ 5-3-8).
Checked: 19 September 2026

New Braunfels

Permit: No permit, license or registration is required.
Fee: None. The code establishes no permit, so there is no fee or fee schedule to check.
Hours you may knock: "True daylight" only — 30 minutes before sunrise to 30 minutes after sunset. Peddlers and solicitors may not solicit funds, demonstrate, or sell during the hours of darkness (§ 90-3(2)(e)-(f)).
Checked: 19 September 2026

Odessa

Permit: Yes. A rep who makes personal contact at a residence to sell a good or service is a "peddler" under the code, and no person may act as a peddler in the city without first getting a permit (§ 4-6-1, § 4-6-9(a)).
Fee: $120.00 per 90 days for a peddler permit (§ 4-6-9(d)(1)). Sales at a set price or requested donation of $20 or less per unit are exempt from the fee, but that carve-out does not fit an ongoing service sale like door-to-door fiber.
Hours you may knock: 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. — a peddler may not enter another's property outside those hours without an express invitation (§ 4-6-9(m)(5); also § 4-6-6(a)).
Checked: 19 September 2026

Pasadena

Permit: Yes — an itinerant vendor's license is required before selling, offering for sale, or taking orders for goods or merchandise in the city, including door to door ( 25-11 ).
Fee: $50.00 for the itinerant vendor's license, plus $5.00 for each additional agent or employee selling under that license — not prorated (25-15(a)).
Hours you may knock: 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. It is unlawful to sell or solicit between 8:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m., licensed or not (25-18).
Checked: 19 September 2026

Pearland

Permit: Yes — a peddler's permit from the city secretary, before any door-to-door selling, soliciting, or taking orders for goods or services (§ 22-1, § 22-4).
Fee: $75.00 per month for the primary permit holder, for a term of up to three months, plus $5.00 per month for each assistant listed on the permit, also up to three months (§ 22-9).
Hours you may knock: 9:00 a.m. until one-half hour before sunset. No peddling at all on Sundays except by a specific appointment with, or invitation from, the customer (§ 22-19).
Checked: 19 September 2026

Plano

Permit: No solicitor permit in the current code.
Fee: None for door-to-door sales; the code names no permit for it. The only fee in the article is for an itinerant vendor or carnival set up on private property, which is a stand or lot business, not knocking doors (11-145).
Hours you may knock: The article sets no knocking hours. The only clock times in it are set-up and operating hours for itinerant vendor sites and carnivals (11-145).
Checked: 19 September 2026

Round Rock

Permit: Yes. A rep making personal contact with residents to sell a good or service is a "peddler," and it is unlawful to act as a peddler without an identification card from the police department (§ 28-19, § 28-20).
Fee: $50 flat per permit (per rep), per the city's own solicitor/peddler ID card page. The code itself only says the fee is set by council resolution (§ 28-22).
Hours you may knock: 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. — a peddler, solicitor or canvasser may not enter upon another's property outside those hours (§ 28-31(a)(4)).
Checked: 19 September 2026

San Antonio

Permit: Yes — and the category decides the price.
Fee: Canvasser $60. Foot peddler $120. Truck peddler $180. A separate background-check fee applies.
Hours you may knock: No official source stating them was reached.
Checked: 4 September 2026

Waco

Permit: Yes — a "peddler" (someone who makes personal contact with a resident at their residence, without a prior invitation, to sell a good or service) must have a permit before going door to door on private property ( 13-357 , 13-361 ).
Fee: $25 application fee, due before the city secretary's office begins processing the application. The code itself only says "the city council will set the fee" (13-370); the $25 figure is on the city's own online application form.
Hours you may knock: One hour after sunrise to one hour before sunset — unless the property owner has posted a different rule (13-364).
Checked: 19 September 2026

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