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Editor's Note: Prior ordinance history includes portions of
Ordinance Nos. 85-06, 92-05 and prior code §§17.75—17.83.
[Ord. #97-05]
As used in this section:
Shall mean for a fee, reward, donation, loan or receipt of
anything of value.
Shall mean and include any of the following diverse philosophies
and their associated techniques for understanding beings, events,
or circumstances, or forecasting of future events or trends, or furnishing
of any information not otherwise obtainable by ordinary processes
of knowledge, by means of any special training, or any occult or psychic
power, faculty or force, including but not limited to: ancient mysteries
or New Age awareness; astrology: augury or other divination; auras
or chakras; awareness consulting; casting dice, rune or other objects;
cards, cartomancy or tarot; channeling, spirits or contacting spirits;
clairaudience, clairvoyance; crystal gazing or attuning; ESP, mind
reading or telepathy; feng shui or similar practices; fortunetelling;
graphology and hand-writing analysis; geomancy; I Ching; magic or
magick of any kind or nature; magnetism, magnetized article or substance;
mediumship, mind-reading or telepathy; necromancy; numerology; palmistry;
phrenology or face reading; prophecy; psychometry; regression or past-life
reading; seership; tea leaves or other such reading; talisman, charm
or potion; or any other associated philosophy, craft, art or science
not licensed by the State of California or regulated by another section
of the Albany Municipal Code.
[Ord. #97-05]
a.
No person shall conduct, engage in, carry on, participate in, or
practice alternative consulting or cause the same to be done for pay
without having first obtained a business license.
b.
No person shall violate any of the terms and conditions of a business
license issued pursuant to this section nor any of the regulations
and provisions within this section or any other regulation of the
City or the State of California. Each day such a violation or violations
occur shall constitute a separate offense punishable as a misdemeanor
in the State of California.
c.
The license may be revoked if the applicant does not continuously
meet the terms required for granting of a business license.
[Ord. #97-05]
a.
The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to any persons
solely by reason of the fact that he or she is engaged in a business
of entertaining the public by demonstrations of mind-reading, mental
telepathy, thought conveyance, or the giving of horoscopic readings,
at public places and in the presence of and within the hearing of
other persons and at which no questions are answered, as part of such
entertainment, except in a manner to permit all persons present at
such public place to hear such answers.
b.
No person shall be required to pay any fee or take out any permit
for conducting or participating in any religious ceremony or service
when such person holds a certificate of ordination as a minister,
missionary, medium, healer, or clairvoyant, hereinafter collectively
referred to as minister, from any bona fide church or religious association
maintaining a church and holding regular services and having a creed
or set of religious principles that is recognized by all churches
of like faith; provided that:
1.
Except as provided in paragraph b,3 hereof, the fees, gratuities,
emoluments, and profits thereof shall be regularly accounted for and
paid solely to or for the benefit of the bona fide church or religious
association, as defined in this paragraph b.
2.
The minister holding a certificate of ordination from such bona fide
church or religious association, as defined in this paragraph b, shall
file with the City Treasurer's office a certified copy of the minister's
certificate of ordination with the minister's name, age, street address
and phone number in this City where the activity set forth in this
paragraph b is to be conducted.
3.
Such bona fide church or religious association, as defined in this
paragraph may pay to its ministers a salary or compensation based
upon a percentage basis, pursuant to an agreement between the church
and the minister which is embodied in a resolution and transcribed
in the minutes of such church or religious association.
