Freehold Township, NJ Soliciting & Door-to-Door: No-Knock Registry (2026)

Article III of Chapter 288, adopted 3-21-2013 by Ord. No. O-13-9, lets any owner or renter register a property on the Township's 'Do Not Solicit' List simply by contacting the Township Clerk's office under § 288-27. The Clerk maintains the list under § 288-28, posts it on the Township website, and strips identifying ownership details so it shows only addresses. When the Tax Assessor reports a change of ownership, the Clerk automatically removes that address, and otherwise a listed property comes off only by a written, sworn and notarized request to the Clerk.

Section 288-30 then makes it a straight prohibition: no person may conduct commercial or noncommercial solicitation or canvassing at any address on the list, a rule that reaches both the licensed peddlers of Article I and the noncommercial canvassers of Article II. The Clerk's office is required under § 288-29 to hand a copy of the current list to every commercial license applicant and to anyone who files the advance notice required for noncommercial canvassing. Article I's own code of conduct backs this up at § 288-9, which bars a commercial solicitor from entering or remaining on any listed property and requires the solicitor to carry a copy no more than two weeks old at all times; Article II imposes the identical duty on noncommercial canvassers at § 288-22.

Section 288-31 carves out one exception: a solicitor may still visit if the owner or occupant has directly or implicitly invited the visit through a prior interaction, though the burden of proving that invitation falls on the solicitor.