Essex County towns run no-knock and do-not-knock protections. A posted 'No Soliciting' sign legally bars a canvasser from your door, and towns keep do-not-knock registries plus curfew hours after which door-to-door selling stops.
Do-not-knock rules sit in each town's solicitation bylaw, not in state law. A resident's posted no-soliciting sign turns further canvassing at that door into trespass police will enforce. Several Essex communities maintain a do-not-knock list residents join, and licensed solicitors receive it and must skip those addresses. Bylaws also fix canvassing hours — an evening time such as 8 p.m. ends door-to-door selling — outside which soliciting is prohibited. Violating a posted sign, the registry, or the curfew voids the solicitor's local permit.
Knocking at a posted no-soliciting home, hitting a do-not-knock address, or canvassing after curfew is a bylaw violation. Police issue a citation and can revoke the solicitor's permit.
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