                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ORDINANCES REGULATING CERTAIN VENDORS (§ 15.2-913)

A. Any locality may by ordinance provide for the regulation of persons not
otherwise licensed by the Commonwealth under Title 38.2, offering any item for
sale within the locality when such persons go from one place of human habitation
to another offering an item, other than newspapers and fresh farm products, for
sale. The purpose of such ordinance is to reasonably control the activities of
door-to-door vendors for the safety and well-being of the people residing in the
locality. However, the locality may in such ordinance exempt such activities
when they are conducted on behalf of a nonprofit charitable, civic, or religious
organization and may provide for other reasonable exemptions in such ordinance.

B. Any locality adopting an ordinance under this section may collect a fee in an
amount not to exceed $20, from each person granted a permit to sell door to
door.

C. Nothing herein shall be construed to apply to any person who, on behalf of
any political party as defined in &#xA7; 24.2-101 or any political campaign
committee required to file a report or statement of contributions and
expenditures, engages in providing information, opinion-sampling, poll-taking,
or other similar canvassing activity.

HISTORY: 1975, c. 378, §§ 15.1-37.3:1, 15.1-37.3:2; 1983, c. 383; 1997, c.
587; 2024, c. 172.