HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrdinance 60-04 Prohibiting Fortune Telling and similar practices for compensation or donationORDINANCE NO. 60 -4
AN.ORDINANCE PROHIBITING.FORTUNE TELLING
AND SIMILAR PRACTICES FOR.COMPENSATION.OR
.DONATION
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TEMPLE CITY DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION :l: AMENDING: MUNICIPAL CODE
Chapter IV is added to Article IV of the City :ofTemple City
Municipal Code, the :Sections of which shall read as follows:
SECTION 4305. Every person who carries on, practices of
professes to practice the business or art of astrology, phrenology,
life reading, fortune telling, cartomancy, clairvoyance, clairaudi-
ence, crystal gazing, hypnotism, mediumship, mesmerism, oriental
mysteries, palmistry, spirit photography, spirit writing, spirit
voices, spirit.- materialization, etherealization, numerology, physi-
ognomy, psychometry, seership; prophecy, augury, divination, magic
or necromancy, or other similar art or business, and demands or re-
ceives directly or indirectly a fee or reward, 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 reward is charged or received, directly or indirectly, or
who teaches or gives instruction in any such art or business and de-
mands or receives, directly or indirectly, a fee or reward, or who
accepts any donation for such teaching or instruction is guilty of a
misdemeanor.
SECTION 4306. Every,person who, by means of occult .or
psychic powers, faculties or forces, spirits, cards, talismans,
charms, potions, magnetism or magnetized . articles or substances,
oriental mysteries or any craft or art described in Section 4305 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 .means 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 misdemeanor.
SECTION.4307. Every person who advertises by sign, circu-
lar, handbill or in any newspaper, periodical or magazine :or•other
publications, or by. any other means, that.he will do anything which.is
prohibited by this.Ordinance, is guilty ;of.a.misdemeanor.
SECTION 4308. 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 dulylic-
ensed teachers or ministers thereof.acting in good faith and without
personal fee.
SECTION.43O9. Violation of.this Ordinance is punishable
by imprisonmentin the County Jail for not.more.than six months or
by a fine of not.more than Five:Hundred..Dollars ($500.00),.or both
such fine.and imprisonment.
SECTION 4310. If any provision of. this Ordinance, or the
application thereof. to any person or circumstance:is held. invalid,
the.remainder of this Ordinance, and the application of such.provi-
sion to other persons or circumstances, shall not be.affected thereby.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 27th day'of.June, 1960, by the
following called vote:
AYES: Councilmen- Buchan, Dickason, Merritt, Tyrell & Fitzjohn
NOES. Councilmen -None
ABSENT: Councilmen -None
ATTEST:
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss
CITY OF TEMPLE CITY )
I, Marjorie A. Woodruff, do hereby certify that I have been duly
appointed Deputy City Clerk of the City of Temple City, California,
and that the foregoing Ordinance No. 60 -4 was introduced at a
regular meeting of the City Council held on June 13, 1960, and
adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council held on June 27,
1960, by the following roll call vote:
AYES: Councilmen- Buchan, Dickason, Merritt, Tyrell, Fitzjohn
NOES: Councilmen -None
ABSENT: Councilmen -None
Dated: June 27, 1960
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.Deputy City CTe k o tRe -City of
Temple City, California.
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