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CITY OF GEM LAKE, RAMSEY COUNTY, MINNESOTA ORDINANCE NO. 111 AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE CONDUCT OF PEDDLERS, SOLICITIORS, AND TRANSIENT MERCHANTS WITHIN THE CITY OF GEM LAKE THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GEM LAKE ORDAINS: SECTION I. PURPOSE AND INTENT. The purpose of this Ordinance is to ensure citizens' privacy rights in their homes and protect residents from fraud and other crimes. This regulation is intended to regulate the appropriate time, place and manner of door-to-door or transient business methods employed within the City. In doing so, the Ordinance shall be applied without regard to the affiliations or messages of any person engaged in these practices. It is not the intent of this ordinance to prohibit or place any prior restraint on a person's freedom of speech, religion or association, and any conflict between this Ordinance and those interests shall be resolved in favor of the speech, religion or associative interest. SECTION 2. DEFINITIONS. Except as may otherwise beprovided or clearlyimplied by context, allterms shall be given their commonly accepted definitions. For thepurpose of this. ordinance, the following definitions shall applyunless the context clearly indicates or requiresa different meaning. CANVASSER. A person who goes door-to-door for the purpose of obtaining or attempting to further advocacy of a religious, social or political organization or cause through collection of signatures, donations, memberships, other financial support, or taking orders for good s to be delivered at a later date in order to raise money for the supported not -for -profit organization or cause. DOOR-TO-DOOR. Where used, this term refers to the act of going from house to house, business to business, street to street, or any other type of place -to -place movement within the City of Gem Lake in furtherance of activity described within this Ordinance, without prior invitation by the owner or occupant of each of the places visited for that purpose. NON COMMERICAL DOOR-TO-DOOR ADVOCATE A person who goes door-to- door for the primary purpose of disseminating religious, political, social, or other ideological beliefs, through personal interaction, distribution of written materials, or both. PEDDLER. A person engaged in for -profit business with no fixed place of business, but goes door-to-door for the purpose of offering for sale, displaying for sale, selling or attempting to sell the goods, wares, products, merchandise, or other property that the person is carrying or otherwise transporting for delivery immediately upon sale. For purposes of this ordinance, the term peddler shall have the same common meaning as the term "hawker."