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

Section 113-4 of the Lower Merion Township Code sets standards of conduct for anyone holding a canvassing and soliciting identification card. Subsection G directly creates the no-knock rule: a solicitor may not enter or attempt to enter any premises where the owner or occupant has requested that solicitation not occur by conspicuously posting a sign or notice reading "No Soliciting," "Do not solicit," or similar language. Subsection D adds a curfew specific to registered commercial canvassing and soliciting: card holders may not engage in the activity after sunset.

Subsection C separately bars entering or attempting to enter any dwelling without the occupant's invitation or permission and requires immediate departure on request. Section 113-6, added in 2016, extends a broader no-knock window to cause and issue advocacy that falls outside the registration scheme: no person may go uninvited onto a residential property to promote, or engage others on behalf of, a cause or idea between 9:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m., or at any hour if the property is posted to prohibit solicitation. A card holder who ignores a posted sign or the sunset curfew violates the standards of conduct in Section 113-4, and under Section 113-5 the Police Department may revoke the identification card for that failure, in addition to referring the case for prosecution.

Section 113-7 makes violating any provision of the chapter, including the posted-sign and curfew rules, punishable before a District Justice by a fine of not more than $600 plus costs.