HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 443ORDINANCE NO. 443
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF PALM DESERT, CALIFORNIA, REPEALING
SECTIONS 9.48.010, 9.48.020 AND 9.48.030 OF
THE PALM DESERT MUNICIPAL CODE AND ADDING A
NEW SECTION 9.48.010 RELATING TO PSYCHIC
ACTIVITIES.
The City Council of the City of Palm Desert, California,
DOES HEREBY ORDAIN as follows:
SECTION 1: That Sections 9.48.010, 9.48.020 and 9.48.030
of the Palm Desert Municipal Code be and the same are hereby
repealed.
SECTION 2: That Section 9.48.010 be and the same is hereby
added to Chapter 9.48 of the Code of the City of Palm Desert, to
read as follows:
A. No person shall practice or solicit, advertise or
purport 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 of 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 cards, or through the
exercise of any purported psychic, mediumistic, prophetic,
occult, clairvoyant, or supernatural power, without first
obtaining a permit as called for in this chapter.
B. Any person, group or entity desiring to obtain a
permit called for under this chapter shall, not less than 30
days before the date of commencement of any activity referred
to in the preceeding section, file with the City, an application
on a form furnished by the City, and signed by the applicant,
providing the following information:
1. the name of the person or organization
applying for the permit;
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2. the name, address, telephone number, driver's
license number and social security number of the person who will
conduct the activity referred to in the proceding section;
3. the street address where the activity will be
held;
4. the date(s) and times when such activities
referred to in the preceeding paragraph will be conducted;
5. whether the applicant or any person who will
conduct the activities referred to in the preceding section has
ever been convicted of:
a. obtaining money or property by
fraudulent game or trick in
violation of Penal Code section
332; or
b. robbery;
C. fraud; or
d. theft; or
e, embezzlement.
6. such other information as may be reasonably
be required by the City Manager, Chief of Police or Director of
Code Compliance.
C. The applicant shall pay to the City a reasonable
fee not to exceed $50.00, payable to the City of Palm Desert, to
pass the cost to process the permit.
D. The City shall issue the permit called for in this
chapter, to the applicant, within 30 days of receipt of
a property completed application and filing fee, unless the
applicant or the person who will conduct the activities referred
to in this chapter has been convicted of any of the offenses
listed in Section B.5 above.
E. The permit granted to the applicant shall provide
that the permittee agrees not to conduct the activities called
for in the permit in any residential zone and further shall
provide that the permittee shall comply with all the zoning
regulation, ordinances, and laws of the City including, but not
limited to, Chapter 25.66 relating to home occupations.
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F. No person, group or entity shall by pretensions to
fortune telling, -trick, or o-ther means whatever, fraudulently
obtain from another person money or property of any description
and such activity shall constitute a violation of this section,
in addition to being a violation of California Penal Code
section 332.
SECTION 3: The City Clerk shall certify to the passage and
adoption of this ordinance and shall cause the same to be
published once in the Palm Desert Post, a newspaper of general
circulation printed, published and circulated within the City of
Palm Desert, and the same shall be in full force and effect
thirty (30) days after its adoption.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the
City of Palm Desert, California, this
December
19th
1985, by the following vote:
AYES: BENSON, JACKSON, SNYDER, WILSON AND KELLY
NOES : NONE
ABSENT: NONE
ABSTAIN: NONE
V
RICHARD S. KELLY,MAYOR
ATTEST:
SHEILA R: GILLIGAN,'iity Clerk
City of Palm Desert, California
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