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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances_1419_CCv0001.pdf ORDINANCE NO. 1419 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF REDLANDS AMENDING CHAPTER 22 AND CHAPTER 23 OF THE REDLANDS ORDINANCE CODE THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF REDLANDS DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS : SECTION ONE: That Section 2252 of Chapter 22 of the Redlands Ordinance Code is rescinded and deleted. SECTION TWO: That Article 239 is hereby added to Chapter 23 of the Redlands Ordinance Code, as follows: BUSINESSES PARTICULAR BUSINESSES Article 239 Article 239 Fortunetell.ing, Palmistry, etc. Sec. 2391. FORETELLING OF FUTURE PROHIBITED, 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 acts or fortunes of any ration, business, group or persons or individual, or which attempts or promises to bring about, cause, result in or influence the achieve- ment or performance of some personal or economic objec- tive, by analysis of parts, products or personal charac- teristics of a person, or by analysis of any animate or inanimate object including but not limited to celestial body, crystal bail, tea leaves, or playing or other cards, or through the exercise of any purported psychic, medium- istic, prophetic, occult, clairvoyant or supernatural power. (1419) Sec. 2391.1 MEDIUMISTIC POWER, NECROMANCY, ETC, PROHIBITED. No person shall act er 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 purported mani- festation of materialization of supernatural or mediumis- tic phenomena. Sec. 2392. EXCEPTION. 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 calling or profession, or the performance of any of the acts and prac- tices otherwise prohibited by this ordinance when done for entertainment and amusement of a group of 12 or more per- sons . Sec. 2393. SEVERABILITY, This article and the various parts, sections and clauses thereof are hereby declared severable. If any part, sentence, paragraph, section or clause it adjudged unconstitutional or invalid, the remainder of this article shall not be affected there- by. The City Council of the City of Redlands hereby declares that it would have passed this article and each part thereof, regardless of the fact that one or more parts hereof be declared unconstitutional or invalid. 13/3/70 BUSINESSES PARTICULAR BUSINESSES Sec. 2394 Sec. 2394. VIOLATION - MISDEMEANOR. A violation of this article is a misdemeanor punishable by fine of not more than $500.00, or by imprisonment in the County jail for not more than six months, or by both such fine and im- prisonment. (1419) 11/3/70 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a to 0 a a 0 0 0 SECTION THREE: Effective Date. This ordinance shall be in force and effect thirty ( 30) days after final passage. SECTION FOUR: Publication. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this ordinance and shall cause the same to be published once in the Redlands Daily Facts, a daily newspaper hereby designated for the purpose. ATTEST: or of the City of dlands z 7- f-W Ci e r:-k - APPROVED FOR FORM: sl Edward F. Taylor City Attorney 1 , Peggy A. Moseley, City Clerk, City of Redlands , hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was duly adopted by the City Council at a regular meeting thereof held on the 3rd day of November, 1970 by the following vote: AYES: Councilmen DeMirjyn, Knudsen, Miller, Sewall, Mayor Cummings NOES : None ABSENT: None CwYlerk Ordinance No. 1419 Page four