"Fortunetelling business" means the acts of prophesying or predicting future events or happenings affecting the personal life of another, or the furnishing of any information not otherwise obtainable by the ordinary process of knowledge gained through scientific methods, through the use of any occult or psychic power, faculty or force; clairvoyance; clairaudience; psychometry; phrenology; spirits; mediumship; seership; augury; astrology; palmistry, necromancy; mind reading; telepathy; art; cards; talisman; charm; potion; magnetism; magnetized article or substance; crystal gazing; spirit photography, writing, voices or materialization; etherialization; mysteries; or magic of any kind or nature, when such acts are carried on for compensation or consideration of any kind or nature; provided, that "fortunetelling business" does not include entertainment activities held in a public place and pursuant to which demonstrations of mind reading, mental telepathy, thought conveyance, or horoscopic readings are made in the presence of and within the hearing of a group of persons; provided, that no questions are answered as a part of such demonstrations except in such a manner as to permit all persons present at the public place to hear the answers, career counseling, the practice of law, journalism, psychiatry, or the buying and selling of securities.
(Ord. 2011-09-1432 § 2, 2011; Ord. 86-08-978 § 1 (part))