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SOMERSET, Mass. (WBZ NewsRadio) — Somerset passed a new bylaw that prevents commercial door knockers from going to certain people's houses.
Residents can sign up to be placed on a "no-knock" list online on the Somerset Police Department website, and door-to-door salespeople must skip these homes.
If these restrictions are not followed, the knocker could be fined or even have their solicitor license revoked.
Somerset passed this bylaw later than many of it's neighboring Massachusetts towns.
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Haverhill was one of the many Massachusetts towns to first put this bylaw in place over a decade ago.
"Before we enacted this, we were getting numerous complaints," says Haverhill Police Captain Meaghan Pare.
While the bylaw accounts for all commercial door-to-door knockers, the captain mainly focused on solar panel companies being the biggest culprit of this issue as of late.
Now, she says that complaints regarding these commercial knockers are rare.
WBZ NewsRadio’s Chaiel Schaffel (@CSchaffelWBZ) reports.
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