Haverford, PA Soliciting & Door-to-Door: No-Knock Registry (2026)

Chapter 130 of the Haverford Township Code controls when and where door-to-door callers can approach homes. Section 130-10A limits commercial soliciting and peddling to 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. during the six months from October 1 through March 31, and 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. from April 1 through September 30. Section 130-10B holds charitable soliciting, political soliciting and any other soliciting or peddling by organizations and individuals exempt from registration under § 130-9 to the hours between 9:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. The Board of Commissioners amended the commercial hours on July 8, 2024 by Ord. No. 3001-2024.

Section 130-11 declares it unlawful and a public nuisance for any person, company, corporation or organization to enter a private residence or business at any time of day or night to conduct commercial or charitable soliciting or peddling where the owner or occupant has posted a No Trespassing sign or a No Soliciting sign, or where the property is registered on the Township Do Not Solicit list. That list is provided to the applicant with the license. Section 130-7K separately requires licensees to comply with No Soliciting notices on commercial or residential property, and § 130-7D bars entering a dwelling without the invitation or permission of the occupants and requires leaving at once on the occupant's request.

The registry itself is § 130-13, added on July 8, 2024. The Township manages a Do Not Solicit registry for landowners and residents who do not want contact from nonexempt door-to-door solicitors. Anyone in lawful possession and occupancy of a business, residence, house, apartment or other dwelling unit in the Township can request a listing by writing to the person the Township designates. A listing stays on the registry until a removal request is submitted. A removal request goes to the Township Secretary, in writing or online as the Township provides, and must repeat the information in the listing request plus an affirmative statement that the person is authorized to remove the property. Under § 130-13E, the registry prohibition is in addition to, and not in place of, the prohibition on soliciting, peddling or distributing at properties displaying No Soliciting or similar signs.