HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 115ORDINANCE NO. 115
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An RE»ALfNO 01MIl AMS NO. 10 OF SAID CITY,
The City Council of the City of Pals Desert, California,
om uRnt o tuty as follows:
WHOM It Portuneteliina. Hiritisw. and related
activities. Ito person shall practice or solicit, 'advertise or
purp rt to practice, as a business or for any consideration, 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
play-ing of other cards, or through the exercise of any purported
1 psychic, mediumistic, prophetic, occult, clairvoyant or super-
natural power.
SECTION 2: Solicitation -Advertisement. 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 pur-
ported manifestation or materialization of supernatural or
wediusistic phenomena.
SECTION S: Exertions. This ordinance shall not apply
to or prohibit any religious service, ceremony, practice or
treatment, or the performance by any licensed person of the acts
and practices usual to his profession, or the performance of any
of the acts and practices otherwise prohibited by this ordinance
whoa done for the treatmsnt and amusement of a group of 19 or
more persons.
SECTION 4t That Ordinance No. 10 of the City of Palm
y` 'ter Oasert be ad the same is hereby repealed.
OMIONSt The City Clerk of the City of Pais Desert,
Csliforats, is bersby directed to cause this ordinance to be
posted is three public places, in accordance with Resolution No.
W-IT sad Sectios desk of the Government Code of the State of
Califorsia.
PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this ate h day of
April 1970, by said City Council by the following
vote:
AYES: McPherson, Mullins, Newbrander, Seidler s Brush
HOES: None
ABSENT: None
ATTEST:
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I. a., .0 . A "KKRV6Y L. ty Clerk
City of Pals Desert, California
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