The purpose of this chapter is to regulate fortune-tellers, psychics and other similar practitioners. Because vulnerable individuals may fall prey to unscrupulous practitioners or persons pretending to be practitioners, the County needs to regulate these practices to protect the public.
(Added by Ord. No. 9970 (N.S.), effective 3-12-09)
The following definitions shall apply to this chapter:
(a) "Consideration" means a payment, fee, reward, donation, loan or anything having monetary value.
(b) "Fortune-telling" means predicting the future or reading the past, using psychic power, clairvoyance, phrenology, consulting with spirits, reading tea leaves, tarot cards or any other object or device, crystal gazing, palm reading, mind reading, telepathy, astrology, necromancy or any other type of purported occult or supernatural powers. It also includes casting spells, providing love potions, good or bad luck charms, placing or removing curses, claiming to enhance or change the course of businesses, finances, relationships or luck, claiming to find hidden property or effect the disposition of property. Fortune-telling also includes pretending to perform fortune-telling.
(Added by Ord. No. 7309 (N.S.), effective 7-2-87; amended by Ord. No. 9970 (N.S.), effective 3-12-09)
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