Solicitation permit

Definition

The county permit a door-to-door seller needs, and the crime of working without one.

Why It Matters

Florida requires a home solicitation sale permit before anyone may sell this way, applied for county by county with a complete set of fingerprints taken by a law enforcement agency and renewed annually. Conducting a home solicitation sale without a valid permit in hand is a first-degree misdemeanor, and a second conviction is a felony. That is the trade's real transient-crew control, and it is a diligence question for a buyer of a residential book: ask which counties the crews sell in and whether a current permit exists for each. No state read has a statute aimed at paving sellers specifically.