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City of Miami Beach
1700 Convention Center Drive
Miami Beach, Florida 33139
Phone: 305.673.7000

CHARITABLE SOLICITATIONS PERMIT 

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Permit Guidelines

Charitable Solicitations Permits are issued to persons seeking to solicit within the city, in accordance with City Code Article II โ€“ Charitable Solicitations.

What Counts as Solicitation? direct person to-person requests for contributions for any:

  • Religious
  • Political
  • Associational
  • Educational
  • Benevolent
  • Health-related
  • Humane
  • Philanthropic
  • Patriotic
  • Eleemosynary function, event, organization or purpose
  • Any charitable cause

The term includes but is not limited to requests for contributions on any street or sidewalk, at any restaurant or hotel, or by means of door-to-door requests for contributions, and requests for contributions within, at, or adjacent to any public event or public forum.

The term also includes the request for contributions in connection with any fair, bazaar, rummage sale, benefit or carnival.

A solicitation shall be deemed to have taken place when the request is made, whether or not the person making the request receives any contribution.

The term does not include requests made by telephonic, television, radio, mailings, posters or other similar indirect and nonpersonal written or electronic communications.

The term also includes the sale or offer, or attempt to sell or offer, any advertising, book, card, tag, device, magazine, membership, merchandise subscription, flower, ticket, candy, cookie or other item, new or used, in connection with any organization, cause or purpose described above.

Office Info:

Tourism & Culture Department

Special Events and Film Division 

Cultural Affairs Division

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