BROOKFIELD — Trustees revisited an ordinance passed nearly a decade ago regarding salespeople in the township — aiming to bring it up to snuff with state law.

At a meeting earlier this week, police Chief Aaron Kasiewicz explained to trustees that the board enacted an ordinance in 2017 regarding transient vendors — essentially regulating door-to-door salesmen.

“Three months after that was passed, the law changed, so we had to update our transient vendor resolution,” Kasiewicz said.

Kaciewicz said the new resolution has language which “supercedes” that of the previous resolution, which was approved in June 2017.

Trustee Dan Suttles clarified that the previous resolution restricted all door-to-door sales in the township, but, unbeknownst to officials, the law had changed, and, with legal counsel’s recommendation, they were making the change to fit the current law.

“It allows for solicitation, door-to-door, but we do regulate the hours to 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. from Oct. 1 to April 30, and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. from May 1 to Sept. 30,” Suttles said. “We have to do it by law.”

Suttles said solicitors were probably among the “top three” things he gets called about from residents.

Suttles said vendors will pay $150 to be allowed to solicit, which will be good for 90 days max per vendor — confirming that with Kaciewicz.

“The caveat, the good part is, if you have a sticker or a sign on your front door that says ‘no solicitation’, they cannot solicit, and they know that,” Suttles said. “If they come to your house and you have this up, the police will enforce it, and fines are involved.”

Suttles said they plan on using the $150 fees to provide vendors with identification, so if they knock on a resident’s door, the resident will know they’ve been approved by the township. They’d also like to create “no solicitation” lists, he added, which will be available on the township’s website and will only have addresses, not names.

“We’re charging for this, but we’re using those funds to make it — we don’t have a choice. The law says we have to allow solicitation,” Suttles said. “A company approached us, telling us that it was their interpretation of the law.”

The resolution will not apply to individuals under the age of 18 who reside in the township and goods and services valued under $10,000 a year, meaning the district’s high school football team can still come to the doors.

The changed resolution went into effect Dec. 1.