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

Chapter 60 gives Wayne Township residents two tools against unwanted door knocking: a registry and a set of conduct rules.

The registry is § 60-10. The Township Clerk prepares a list of addresses where the owner or occupant has notified the Clerk that canvassing and soliciting is not permitted on the premises. Notification is made by completing a form available at the Township Clerk's office during normal business hours. The list is updated on January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1 of each year. The Township Clerk submits it to the Chief of Police quarterly for distribution to applicants for a permit to canvass, peddle or solicit, and the permittee shall not canvass, solicit or peddle at any address on the list. When the Tax Assessor learns of a transfer of ownership of a residential premises, the Tax Assessor notifies the Township Clerk, and the Clerk removes the premises from the list, so a new owner starts with a clean entry.

The conduct rules in § 60-7 bind everyone who engages in these activities, whether exempt from the licensing requirements or not. Subsection (D) says no person shall make any solicitation within the Township limits where solicitors are notified by sign that soliciting is prohibited. Subsection (G) says no person shall be permitted to solicit, canvass or peddle between the hours of 7:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m. Subsection (B) bars entering or attempting to enter a resident's house or apartment without the occupant's express invitation, and subsection (A) requires circulars and samples to be handed to an occupant or left in a secure place on the premises.

Because § 60-1(B) exempts political campaigning and noncommercial canvassing from the permit requirement only, those canvassers still face the hours limit and the posted-sign rule, while the list itself is distributed to permit applicants.