Ordinance No. 019 - Prohibiting Fortune TellingORDINANCE NO. 19
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AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING FORTUNE TELLING AND SIMILAR
PRACTICES FOR COMPENSATION OR DONATION.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ROSEMEAD DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1: AMENDING MUNICIPAL CODE.
Chapter III is added to Article VI of the Rosemead Municipal
Code, the Sections of which shall read as follows:
Section 6301.
Every person who carries on, practices or professes to practice
the business or art of astrology, phrenology, life reading, fortune tell-
ing, cartomancy, clairvoyance, clairaudience, crystal gazing, hypnotism,
mediumship, mesmerism, oriental mysteries, palmistry, spirit photography,
spirit switing, spirit voices, spirit materialization, etherealization,
numerology, physiognomy, psychometry, seership, prophecy, augury, divina-
tion, magic or necromancy, or other similar art or business, and demands
or receives directly or indirectly a fee or regard, or who accepts any
donation for the exercise or exhibition of his art therein, or who gives
an exhibition thereof at any place where an admission fee, donation, or
regard is charged or received, directly or indirectly, or who teaches or
gives instruction in any such art or business and demands or receives,
directly or indirectly, a fee or regard, or who accepts any donation for
such teaching or instruction is guilty of a misdemeanor.
0 Section 6302.
Every person who, by means of occult or psychic powers, faculties
or forces, spirits, cards, talismans, charms, potions, magnetism or mag-
netized articles or substances, oriental mysteries or any craft or art
described in Section 6301 of this Ordinance, or similar art or craft,
purports to or does, find or restore lost or stolen property, locate oil
wells, gold or silver or other ore or metal or natural product, restore
lost love or friendship or affection, unite or procure lovers, husbands,
wives, lost relatives or friends, or by such mew s gives any counseling
or advice whatsoever, and who demands or receives directly or indirectly
a fee or reward or who accepts any donation therefor is guilty of a mis-
demeanor.
Section 6303.
Every person who advertises by sign, circular, handbill or in
any newspaper, periodical or magazine, or other publication or publications,
or by any other means, that he will do anything which is prohibited by this
Ordinance, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 6304.
This Ordinance does not apply to, and it shall not be construed
to interfere with, the belief, practices or usage of an incorporated
ecclesiastical governing body or the duly licensed teachers or ministers
thereof acting in good faith and without personal fee.
Section 6305.
Violation of this Ordinance is punishable by imprisonment in the
County Jail for not more than six months or by a fine of not more than
Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Section 6306.
If any provision of this Ordinance, or the application thereof
to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of this Or-
dinance, and the application of such provision to other persons or circum-
stances, shall not be affected thereby.
February,
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 9th day of ibmmmmT, 19609 by the
following called vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEN: Buchanan, Cook, Horning, Lowrey, Stead.
NOES: COUNCILMEN: None.
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: None.
MAYOR T CITY OF HWEMEAD
ATTEST:
- CITYCLERKOF THE CITY OF OS , EIS
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