Door-to-door selling in Somerset County is licensed by each municipality, not the county. New Jersey law, N.J.S.A. 40:52-1, empowers a town to license and regulate hawkers, peddlers, and itinerant vendors, and Somerset towns require registration and a police background check.
New Jersey vests peddler and solicitor licensing in the municipality. Under N.J.S.A. 40:52-1 a governing body may license and regulate hawkers, peddlers, and itinerant vendors of merchandise. Every Somerset municipality has adopted a peddler, solicitor, or canvasser ordinance requiring a commercial door-to-door seller to register with the town clerk or police, submit to a criminal background check, carry a photo identification badge, and observe permitted hours. Charitable, religious, and political canvassers are treated differently and generally cannot be barred, since their door-to-door activity is constitutionally protected, but a commercial solicitor in Bridgewater, Franklin, Hillsborough, Bernards, or Somerville must hold the local permit.
Soliciting without the required municipal permit lets police order the canvasser to stop, issue a municipal-court fine under the local ordinance, and bar future licensing.
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