(a) No person shall pretend, for money or gain, to predict future events by cards, tokens, trances, the inspection of the hands or the conformation of the skull of any person, mind-reading, so-called, or by consulting the movements of the heavenly bodies.
(b) No person shall pretend, for money or gain, to tell fortunes or foretell future events by other means than those mentioned in subsection (a) hereof.
(c) No person shall pretend, by or through means of palmistry, phrenology, clairvoyance, astrology, or fortunetelling by cards or other devices, for money or gain, to enable anyone to get or recover lost or stolen property, or to give success in business enterprise, speculation or games of chance, or to make one person dispose of property, business or valuable things in favor of another.
(d) No person shall publish, by card, circular, sign, newspaper or any other means whatsoever, that he or she shall or will predict future events. Such a publication may be given in evidence to sustain an indictment under subsections (a) through (c) hereof. Any person whose fortune may have been told, as aforesaid, shall be a competent witness against all persons charged with any violation of subsections (a) through (c) hereof.
(Ord. 85. Passed 5-10-72.)