As used in Title 5, “fortunetelling business” includes every person, advertising by sign, circular, handbill, newspaper, periodical, magazine or other publication, or by any other means whatsoever, the telling of fortunes, forecasting of futures or furnishing any information not otherwise obtainable by the ordinary process of knowledge, for or without pay, by means of any occult or psychic power faculty or force. “Fortunetelling” includes, but is not limited to, psychic reading, occult reading, clairvoyance, clairaudience, cartomancy, psychometry, phrenology, spirits, mediumship, seership, prophecy, augury, astrology, palmistry, necromancy, mindreading, telepathy or other craft, art, science, cards, talisman, charm, potion, magnetism, magnetized article or substance, gypsy cunning or foresight, and crystal gazing. The following are exempt from this definition:
(a) Any person who is engaged solely in providing fortunetelling services for entertaining the public by demonstrations of mindreading, mental telepathy and thought conveyance, or by giving 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. Nothing in this section, however, shall be construed as exempting any person from the payment of the applicable license fee, if any, required to be paid by the licensing provisions of this chapter;
(b) Any person who is engaged to perform a religious service;
(c) Any person reading tea leaves in a bona fide, regularly established restaurant, for the amusement of the patrons of the restaurant, where no charge for such reading or readings is made; and
(d) Any person who is licensed to practice psychology, psychotherapy, therapy, counseling, hypnotherapy, or any other related licensed, healing art regulated pursuant to the State Business and Professions Code.
(Ord. 776 § 2 (part), 1999)