Ordinance Number 2346
ATTEST:
City Clerk Pro Tem
State of California )
County of Orange ) as.
City of San Juan Capistrano)
I, Ernest Thompson, City Clerk Pro Tempore of the City of San Juan
Capistrano, do hereby certify that the foregoing and attached Ordinance
was finally passed, approved and adopted by the City Council of the City
of San Juan Capistrano at a regular meeting thereof held on the first
day of May, 1961.
(SEAL)
AYES: Councilmen: Bathgate, Chermak,
Durnford, Olivares, Buchheim
NOES: Councilmen: None
ABSENT: Councilmen: None
City Clerk Pro Tem
ORDINANCE NO. 23
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO
PROHIBITING THE PRACTICE OR E%HIBTION OF THE
BUSINESS Oft ART OF ASTROLOGY, PALMISTRY, PHREN-
OLOGY LIFE READING, FORTUNE TELLING AND SIMILAR
PURSUITS; PROVIDING FOR PENALTIES HEREUNDER AMID
DECLARING THE URGENCY HEREOF.
SECTION 1. Fortune telling, mediumship, magic — Practice for co-
mpensation prohibited. — It is unlawful in the City of San Juan Capis-
trano for any person, firm or corporation to carry on, practice or pro-
fess to practice the business or art of astrology, palmistry, phrenolo-
gy, life -reading fortune telling, cartomancy, clairvoyance, clairaudie-
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nee, crystal gazing, hy,motism, mediumship, spirit photography, spirit
writing, spirit v6kces, spirit materialization, etheralization, prophecy
augury, divination, magic necromancy, character reading, or fortune tell=
ing by handwriting analysis, or other similar business or art and to de-
mand or receive directly or indirectly a fee, gift, donation or reward
for the exercise or exhibition of his, her or its art therin.
SECTION 2. Fortune telling, spiritualism, magic — Exhibition for
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consideration prohibited. No person shall give an exhibition of astro-
logy, palmistry, phrenology, life -reading, fortune telling, cartomancy,
clairvoyance, clairaudience, crystal gazing, hypnotism, msdiumship,
spirit writing, spirit voices, spirit materialization, prophecy, augury,
divination, magic necromancy, or other similar business or art, at any
place where an admission fee, gift, donation or regard is charged, asked
or received, directly or indirectly.
SECTION 3. Fortune telling, spiritualism, magic — Teaching for
consideration prohibited. No person shall teach or give instruction in
astrology, palmistry, phrenology, life -reading, fortun9 telling, cartomancy,
clairvoyance, clairaudience, crystal gazing, hypnotism, mediumship,
spirit photography, spirit writing, spirit voices, materialization,
etherealization, prophecy, augury, divination, magic, necromancy, or
other similar business or art and demand, ask or receive, directly or
indirectly, a gift, fee, donation or reward for such teaching or instance.
SECTION 4. Any person violating any of the provisions of this
ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a
fine not to exceed $500.00, or by imprisonment in the County jail for a
period not to exceed six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
SECTION 5. This ordinance is an ordinance for the immediate preser-
vation of the public peace, health and safety and the following is a
declaration of the facts constituting the urgency.
The City of San Juan Capistrano, a municipal corporation, became
duly incorporated on the 19th day of April, 1961. On said date the rules,
regulations and ordinances of the County of Orange that were in effect
and operative in the area within the boundaries of the present City of
San Juan Capistrano are no longer of any force or effect by reason of
the incorporation of the city. In order that the public will be pro-
tected immediately, it is necessary that this Ordinance be adopted as an
urgency measure.
SECTION 6. This ordinance shall take effect immediately and within
fifteen days (15) shall be published in the Coastline Dispatch, together
with the names of the City Councilmen voting for and against the same.
Passed, approved and adopted this first day of May, 1961.
Mayor o San Juan Capistrano
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ATTEST:
City Clerk Pro Tem
State of California )
County of Orange ) as.
City of San Juan Capistrano)
I, Ernest Thompson, City Clerk Pro Tempore of the City of San Juan
Capistrano, do hereby certify that the foregoing and attached Ordinance
was finally passed, approved and adopted by the City Council of the City
of San Juan Capistrano at a regular meeting thereof held on the first
day of May, 1961.
(SEAL)
AYES: Councilmen: Bathgate, Chermak
Durnford, Olivares, Buchheim
NOES: Councilmen: None
ABSENT: Councilmen: None
City Clerk Pro Tem
ORDINANCE NO. 24
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO
ESTABLISHING THE LICENSING OF BUSINESSES, PRO-
FESSIONS AND TRADES; PROVIDING FOR THE PROCEDURES
TO BE FOLLOWED, SETTING THE TAX RATES AND PROS
VIDING FOR EXEMPTIONS THEREFROM; PRESCRIBING
PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION HEREOF AND DECLARING
THE URGENCY HEREOF.
SECTION 1., Rights Granted.
A license certificate from the City issued as provided in this
ordinance shall authorize the person to whom issued by himself or itself
or unless otherwise expressly provided in this Ordinance, by bona fide
employeestin the regular course of their employment, to engage in, carry
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on, conduct, in the City, the business, trade, calling, profession,
exhibition or vocation for which issued, during the life of such license
certificate. No person shall engage in, carry on, or conduct in the City
any business, trade, calling, profession, exhibition or vocation herein-
after in this Ordinance named, without such license certificate therefor,
issued as provided in this Ordinance or at a time other than authorized
in the license certificate. No personal or written demands or notice