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CITY OF IRWINDALE
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
ORDINANCE NO. 23
AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING FORTUNE TELLING AND SIMILAR
PRACTICES FOR COMPENSATION OR DONATION.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF IRWINDALE DOES ORDAIN
AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Every person who carries on, pract-
ices or professes to practice the business or art of
astrology, phrenology, life reading, fortune telling,
cartomancy, clairvoyance, clairaudience, crystal gazing,
hypnotism, mediumship, mesmerism, oriental mysteries,
palmistry, spirit photography, spirit writing, spirit
voices, spirit materialization, etherealization, num-
erology, physiognomy, psychometry, seership, prophecy,
augury, divination, magic or necromancy, or other sim-
ilar art or business, and demands or receives directly or
indirectly a fee or reward, or who accepts any donation
for the exercise or exhibition of his art therein, or
who gives an exhibition thereof at any place where an
admission fee, donation, or reward is charged or re-
ceived, directly or indirectly, or who teaches or gives
instruction in any such art or business and demands or
receives, directly or indirectly, a fee or reward, or
who accepts any donation for such teaching or instruction
is guilty of a misdemeanor.
SECTION 2. Every person who, by means of occult
or psychic powers, faculties or forces, spirits, cards,
talismans, charms, potions, magnetism or magnetized
articles or substances, oriental mysteries or any craft
or art described in Section 1 of this ordinance, or
similar art or craft, purports to or does, find or
restore lost or stolen property, locate oil wells, gold
or silver or other ore or metal or natural product, re-
store lost love or friendship or affection, unite or
procure lovers, husbands, wives, lost relatives or
friends, or by such means gives any counseling or advice
whatsoever, and who demands or receives directly or in-
directly a fee or reward or who accepts any donation
therefor, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
SECTION 3. Every person who advertises by sign,
circular, handbill or in any newspaper, periodical or
magazine, or other publication or publications, or by any
other means, that he will do anything which is pro-
hibited by this ordinance, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
SECTION 4. This ordinance does not apply to,
and it shall not be construed to interfere with, the
belief, practices or usage of an incorporated ecclesi-
astical governing body or the duly licensed teachers
or ministers thereof acting in good faith and without
personal fee.
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SECTION 5. Violation of this ordinance is pun-
ishable by imprisonment in the County Jail for not more
than six months or by a fine or not more than five hun-
dred dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
SECTION 6. If any provision of this ordinance,
or the application thereof to any person or circumstance
is held invalid, the remainder of this ordinance, and
the application of such provision to other persons or
circumstances, shall not be affected thereby.
SECTION 7. The City of Irwindale was incorp-
orated on August 6, 1957, and the City Council thereof
has not yet adopted any legislation with respect to the
foregoing matters, which affect the peace, health, and
safety of the residents of the City of Irwindale. This
ordinance is, therefore, required for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, and safety,
and the same shall take effect immediately upon the
passage thereof.
SECTION 8. This ordinance shall take immediate
effect after the date of its adoption and the same shall
be posted in three public places within the City Limits
of the City of Irwindale, as prescribed by Resolution
No. 57-1.
ATTEST:
nr,nr,rsx ur.n'rlr's znat the foregoing is a true
and correct copy of Ordinance No. 23 of said City, which
was adopted at a regular meeting of said Council held on
the 26th day of August, 1957, by the following vote:
Ayes DIAZ MARTINEZ MIRANDA TAPIA ORNELAS
Noes NONE Absent NONE
I further certify that said ordinance was there-
upon signed by the Mayor of the City of Irwindale.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss
CITY OF IRWINDALE )
and says;
MIKE MARTINEZ, being first duly sworn, deposes
That he is the City Clerk of the City of
Irwindale, Californa, and is and was at all times herein
mentioned a citizen of the United States over the age of
eighteen (18) years and competent to be a witness herein.
On August 27, 1957, he securely and conspicuously
posted at each of the public places in said City, to wit:
(1) 5140 North Irwindale Avenue
(2) Post Office on Irwindale Avenue
(3) Southwest corner of Arrow Highway and
Irwindale Avenue
a copy of Ordinance No. 23 of the City of Irwindale being
in all respects the same as that attached hereto and made
a part hereof.
Dated: August 26, 1957
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Subscribed and sworn to before
me this 3rd day of September 1957
Notary Public in and for
said County and State
My Commission Expires October 14, 1960