For purposes of this chapter, the following term shall have
the following meaning:
shall mean the practicing or carrying on of any art, profession
or business which shall include, but not be limited to, the telling
of fortunes, forecasting of futures, or furnishing of any information
not otherwise obtainable by the ordinary process of knowledge, for
or without pay. Fortunetelling shall include, but not be limited to,
psychic reading, occult reading, clairvoyance, clairaudience, cartomancy,
psychometry, phrenology, spirits, mediumship, seership, prophecy,
augury, astrology, palmistry, necromancy, mindreading, tarot card
readings, tea leaves, telepathy or other craft, art, science, cards,
talisman, charm, potion, magnetism, magnetized article or substance,
gypsy cunning or foresight, crystal gazing, and crystal reading of
any kind or nature.
(Prior code § 6352(a); Ord. 90-269 § 1, 1990)
1.
This
chapter shall not apply to the licensed practice of psychology, psychotherapy,
counseling, hypnotherapy, or any other related licensed, healing art
regulated pursuant to the state Business and Professions Code.
2.
This
chapter shall not apply to any person who is engaged solely in providing
fortunetelling services to groups 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 except in
a manner to permit all persons present at such public place to hear
such answers.
(Prior code § 6352(b); Ord. 90-269 § 1, 1990)
In addition to the information prescribed by the Director, each
application for a license for fortunetelling shall contain the following
information:
1.
The
last two previous addresses of the applicant;
2.
Photographs
and fingerprints of the applicant and each employee;
3.
In the
event the applicant is not the owner of record of the real property
upon which the fortunetelling activity is or is to be located, the
application must be accompanied by a notarized statement from the
owner of record of the property acknowledging that a fortunetelling
business or service is or will be located on the property. In addition
to furnishing such notarized statement, the applicant shall furnish
the name and address of the owner of record of the property, as well
as a copy of the lease or rental agreement pertaining to the premises
in which the fortunetelling business or activity is or will be located.
(Prior code § 6352(c); Ord. 90-269 § 1, 1990; Ord. 08-800 § 2, 2008)
