June 14, 2006
Do Not Knock Massachusetts Bill Going to Vote Today
Do Not Knock Massachusetts Bill Going to Vote Today Share on FacebookDo Not Knock list proposed by Massacusetts lawmakers here to push for a bill that would allow residents to sign up for a do-not-knock list keeping solicitors off their property.
The legislation also would require background checks on sales crews.
Representative Cleon Turner of Yarmouth says the bill is intended to make people feel safer and less vulnerable to the aggressive tactics of some door to door solicitors.
In cities and towns that vote to adopt the proposal, police departments would maintain the resident database, as well as a list of door-to-door sellers. The bill would exempt political activists, religious organizations and nonprofits such as Boy Scouts.
Under the bill, sales crews who don’t register with police departments would face fines of up to $5,000. A special provision to protect senior citizens, who Turner says are particularly vulnerable to intimidation, says a salesman who solicits on the property of a person 65 or older on the list cannot be fined less than $1,500.
A spokeswoman at the Massachusetts chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union wasn’t able to immediately comment as she had not seen the proposed legislation.
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