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CITY OF GEM LAKE, RAMSEY COUNTY, MINNESOTA ORDINANCE NO. 111 AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE CONDUCT OF PEDDLERS, SOLICITORS, AND TRANSIENT MERCHANTS WITHIN THE CITY OF GEM LAKE THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GEM LAKE ORDAINS: SECTION 1. 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 ordinance is intended to regulate the appropriate time, place and manner of door-to-door or transient business methods employed within the city. This 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 be provided or clearly implied by context, all terms shall be given their commonly accepted definitions. For the purpose of this ordinance, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning. 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. For purpose of this ordinance, the term door-to-door advocate shall fall under the term solicitor and include door-to-door canvassing and pamphleteering intended for non- commercial purposes. PEDDLER. A person who 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.” PERSON. Any natural individual, group, organization, corporation, partnership, or similar association.