HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC Ord 598 1961-11-06
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CITY OF SEAL BEACH
ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
ORDINANCE NO. 59(
AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING THE TELLING OF FORTUNES AND SIMILAR
PRACTICES WITHIN THE CITY OF SEAL BEACH, AMENDING ORDINANCE NO.
472, ENTITLED "LICENSE CODEII OF THE CITY OF SEAL BEACH BY REPEAL-
ING SECTION 3.285, ENTITLED. ''FORTUNE TELLING" AND SECTION 3.371,
ENTITLED "'PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT BY "MIND READING".
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SEAL BEACH DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Fortune Tellinll; and Similar Practices Prohibited.
Every person who carries on, practices or professes to
practice the business or art of astrology, phrenology, life read-
ing, fortune telling, cartomancy, clairvoyance, dlair-audience,
crystal gazing, hypnotism, mediumship, mesmerism, oriental
mysteries, palmistry, spirit photography, spirit writing, spirit
voices, spirit materialization, etherealization, numerology,
physiognomy, seership, prophecy, augury, divination, magic or
necromancy, or other similar art or bus1ness, 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 give an exhibition thereof at any place where an admissionfee,
donation, or reward is charged or receive~, 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 reward,
or who accepts any donation for such teaching or instruction, is
guilty of a misdemeanor.
19 SECTION 2. Other Activities Prohibited.
Every person who, by means of occult or physhic powers,
faculties, or forces, spirits cards, talismans, charms potions,
magnetism or magnetized articies or substances, orientai mysteries'
or any craft or art described in Section 1 hereof, 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 whatso-
ever, and who demands or receives directly or indirectly, a fee
or reward or who accepts any donation therefor, is guilty of a
misdemeanor.
SECTION 3. Advertisinll; Prohibited.
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 prohib1ted by this Ordinance, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
SECTION 4, Exception--Ecclesiastical Groups.
'l11is 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
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1 teachers or ministers thereof acting in good faith and without
personal fee.
SECTION 5. Ordinance No. 472, entitled ''License Code" of the
City of Seal Beach is hereby amended by repealin~ Section 3.285,
entitled ''Fortunetelling'' and Section 3.371, ent1tled ''Public
Entertainment by 'Mind Reading'''. ,
SECTION 6. PENALTY PROVISIONS. Any person vioihating any of
the provisions of this ordinance is ~ilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof shall be pun1shable by a fine of not to
exceed Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment in the
CountI Jail for a period not to exceed six (6) months, or by both
such fine and imprisonment.
SECTION 7. SEVERABILITY. If any section, subsection, sentenc ,
clause, phrase, or portion of this Ordinance, or the application
thereof to anI person, firm! corporation or circumstance, is for
any reason he d to be inva11d or unconstitutional by the decision
of any court of cometent jurisdiction, such decision shall not
affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance.
The Council of the City of Seal Beach hereby declares that it
would have adopted this Ordinance and each section, sub-section,
sentence, clause, phrase, or portion thereof, irrespective of the
fact that anyone or more subsection! section, sentence, clause,
phrase, or portion be declared inva11d or unconstitutional.
SECTION 8. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Ordinance shall take effect
thirty days after its adoption, shall be certified as to its
adoption by the City Clerk, and shall be published in The Seal
Beach Post and Wave within fifteen days after its adoption, to-
gether with the names of the members of the City Council voting
for and against the same.
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ATTEST:
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City Clerk
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE )
CITY OF SEAL BEACH )
I, F. W. HICKMAN, City Clerk of the City of Seal Beach and
ex-officio Clerk of the City Council, do hereby certify to the
passage and adoption of the foregoing Ordinance by the City Council
at ~'regu~ar meeting thereof held on the 6th day of "NOVEMBER,
1961, by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
Councilmen: Flanagan, Jones, Leonard, Gemmill
Councilmen: None
Councilmen: Gibbs
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