Chapter 5.31
FORTUNETELLING
Sections:
5.31.020 Fortunetelling – Permit required.
5.31.030 Fortunetelling – Permit required – Fee – Application.
5.31.010 Definitions.
For purposes of this chapter, unless the context clearly requires a different meaning, the words, terms and phrases hereinafter set forth shall have the meaning given them in this section:
A. “For pay” means for a fee, reward, donation, loan or receipt of anything of value.
B. “Fortunetelling” means telling of fortunes, forecasting of futures, or furnishing of any information not otherwise obtainable by the ordinary process of knowledge, by means of any occult, psychic power, faculty, force, clairvoyance, clairaudience, cartomancy, psychology, psychometry, phrenology, spirits, tea leaves or other such reading, mediumship, seership, prophecy, augury, astrology, palmistry, necromancy, mind-reading, telepathy, or other craft, art, science, cards, talisman, charm, potion, magnetism, magnetized article or substance, gypsy cunning or foresight, crystal gazing, oriental mysteries or magic, of any kind or nature. (Ord. 516 § 1, 1985).
5.31.020 Fortunetelling – Permit required.
It is unlawful for any person, association, partnership, or corporation to engage in conduct, carry on, in or upon any premises within the city, fortunetelling for pay, without a permit issued pursuant to Chapter 5.12 BGMC as supplemented by the provisions of this chapter. (Ord. 516 § 1, 1985).
5.31.030 Fortunetelling – Permit required – Fee – Application.
A. Any person, association, partnership or corporation desiring to obtain a permit for fortunetelling shall make an application pursuant to BGMC 5.12.020. A nonrefundable fee, as established by resolution of the city council, shall accompany the submission of each application to defray the cost of investigation.
B. The application for a permit shall set forth, in addition to the information required by BGMC 5.12.020:
1. The record of the applicant’s convictions for violation of law within the five years last passed, excluding minor traffic violations;
2. Applicant’s business, occupation and employment history for the three years immediately preceding the date of application. (Ord. 516 § 1, 1985).
5.31.040 Bond.
A. No permit shall be issued pursuant to this chapter until the applicant has posted with the city clerk a surety bond in the principal sum amount of $10,000 executed as surety by a good and sufficient corporate surety authorized to do a surety business in the state of California and as a principal by the applicant. The form of the bond shall have been approved by the city attorney and shall have been given to ensure good faith and fair dealing on the part of the applicant and as a guarantee of indemnity for any and all loss, damage, theft, or other unfair dealings suffered by any patron of the applicant within the city during the terms of the permit.
B. Failure of the permittee to renew or to otherwise keep the bond in full force and effect shall be grounds for suspension or revocation of the permit. (Ord. 516 § 1, 1985).