San Fernando Municipal Code Div. 1 Generally

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Fortunetelling means the act of fortunetelling or prophesying future events or happenings affecting the personal life of another by resorting to any occult or psychic power, faculty, or force; clairvoyance, clairaudience, cartomancy, psychometry, phrenology, spirits, mediumship, seership, prophecy, augury, astrology, palmistry, necromancy, mind reading, telepathy or other similar activity; cards, talisman, charm, potion; spirit photography, spirit writing, spirit voices, spirit materialization, etherealization; crystal gazing, oriental mysteries or magic of any kind or nature; when such fortunetelling is carried on as a business activity for compensation or consideration of any kind or nature.

(Code 1957, § 9A.2)

Cross reference— Definitions generally, § 1-2.

Editor's note— Ord. No. 1537, § 12, adopted Oct. 21, 2002, repealed § 22-327 which pertained to penalty and derived from Code 1957, § 9A.12.