Dearborn Heights, MI Soliciting & Door-to-Door: No-Knock Registry (2026)

Section 3-23 sits in Chapter 3's Article II on handbills and protects residents who do not want to be solicited. It bars distributing, depositing, placing, throwing, scattering or casting a handbill on any premises if the distributor has been asked not to, or if a sign reading "No Trespassing," "No Peddlers or Agents," "No Advertisement," or a similar notice sits in a conspicuous position near the entrance. The provision, carried from Code 1969, § 9.68, treats that signage as proof the occupants do not want their privacy disturbed or handbills left on the premises.

The duty runs both ways: an owner, landlord, or person in control of a vacant property, meaning one unoccupied for more than five days, must post one of these signs, though temporary absences by the regular occupants do not count as vacancy. Section 3-24 separately allows depositing a handbill on inhabited, unposted premises if it will not blow away, unless someone present objects. Because § 3-16 excludes political and religious literature from the definition of "handbill," a posted sign under § 3-23 does not reach those categories.

Section 3-21 extends liability to a merchant who causes advertising to be scattered, holding the merchant equally responsible for a municipal civil infraction alongside whoever actually placed the material on a vehicle or in a public place.