HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrdinance 396ORDINANCE NO. 396
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BEAUMONT,
CALIFORNIA REGULATING FORTUNETELLING,
SPIRITISM AND RELATED ACTIVITIES.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BEAUMONT DOES HEREBY ORDAIN
AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1.
a) No person shall practice or solicit, advertise or
purport to practice, as a business or for any con-
sideration, fee, donation, gratuity, reward or
compensation, any art or calling which seeks or
purports to predict or foretell future events or
the fate or future acts or fortunes of any nation,
business, group or persons or individual, or which
attempts or promises to bring about, cause, result
in or influence the achievement or performance of
some personal or economic objective, by analysis
of parts, products or personal characteristics of
a person, or by analysis of any animate or inanimate
object including but not limited to, celestial
body, crystal ball, tea leaves, or playing or other
cards, or through the exercise of any purported
psychic mediumistic, prophetic, occult, clairvoyant
or supernatural power.
b) No person shall act or solicit, advertise or purport
to act, as a business or for any consideration, fee,
donation, gratuity, reward or compensation as a
medium or instrumentality for communication with the
spirit of a deceased person or participate in the
purported manifestation or materialization of super-
natural or mediumistic phenomena.
Section 2. This ordinance shall not apply to or prohibit any
religious service, ceremony, practice or treatment, or the per-
formance by any licensed person of the acts and practices usual to
his calling or profession, or the performance of any of the acts
and practices otherwise prohibited by this ordinance when done for
the entertainment of a group of 12 or more persons.
Section 3. A violation of this ordinance is a misdemeanor
punishable by a fine of not more than $500, or by imprisonment in
the County jail for not more than six months, or by both such fine
and imprisonment.
Section 4. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of
this Ordinance and shall cause the same to be published in the
Record -Gazette, a newspaper of general circulation, in the City of
Beaumont, and this ordinance shall be in full force and effect
thirty days after its adoption.
PASSED ANL ADOPTED this 12th day of November , 1968.
Mayor of the City of Beaumont, Californi.
ATTEST:
City Clerk of the City of
Beaumont_ Cal i forni a
STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE) SS
CITY OF BEAUMONT )
I, Mae B. Goularte, City Clerk of the City of Beaumont,
California, hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was intro-
duced and read at a Regular Meeting of the City Council of said
City duly held on the 24th day of September , 1968, and that
the same was duly passed and adopted at a regular meeting held on
the 12th day of November, 1968, by the following vote:
AYES: Councilman Rodeman, Mason, Kief and Haskell.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Councilman Hightower.
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City Clerk
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