Ordinance - 915ORDINANCE NO. 915
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
WEST COVINA AMENDING THE WEST COVINA MUNICIPAL
CODE TO PROHIBIT FORTUNE TELLING, PALMISTRY,
AND SIMILAR PRACTICES.
The City Council of the City of 'West Covina does ordain as
follows:
SECTION 1. The West Covina Municipal Code is hereby amended
by the addition thereto of a. new Section 4133 reading as follows:
114133. FORTUNE TELLING, PALMISTRY, ETC.
No person shall carry on the practice or profess to
practice the business or art of astrology,phrenology, life
reading, fortune telling, cartomancy, clairvoyance, clair-
audiance, crystal gazing, hypnotism, mesmerism, oriental
mysteries, palmistry, spirit photography, spirt writing,
spirit voices, spirit materialism, etherealization,
numerology, physiognomy, psychometry, seership, prophecy,
augery, divination, magic or necromancy or other similar
art or business, who demands or receives, directly or
indirectly, a fee or reward, or who accepts any donation
for the exercise or exhibition of his art therein or who
gives any exhibition thereof at any place where an admission
fee, donation or reward is charged or received, 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."
SECTION 2. Section 6236 of the West Covina Municipal Code
is hereby amended by the deletion therefrom of the following words:
"fortune telling, clairvoyants and kindred practices".
SECTION 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of
this ordinance and shall cause the same to be published as required by
law.
Passed and approved
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES SS.
CITY OF.W-EST COVINA
nd day of March , 1965.
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I, ROBERT FLOTTEN, City Clerk of the City of West Covina, do
hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 915 was regularly
introduced and placed upon its first reading at a regular meeting of the
City Council on the gth day of March , 1965. That, thereafter,
said ordinance was d-u-Ty—adopted and passe a a regular meeting of the
City Council on the 22nd day of March , 1965, by the following
vote, to wit:
0 AYES: Councilmen: Jett, Krieger,
NOES: Councilmen: None
ABSENT:Couneilmen: None
Nichols, Heath, Mayor Snyder
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Cit
y Clerk