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ORDINANCE 2670 ORDINANCE NO. 267 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, PROHIBITING FORTUNE- TELLING AND SIMILAR PRACTICES FOR COMPENSATION OR DONATION. The City Council of the City of E1 Segundo, California, does ordain as follows: SECTION 1. Every person who carries on, practices or professes to practice the business or art of astrology, phrenology, life- reading, fortune- telling, cartomanoy, clairvoyance, olairaudienoe, orystal - gazing, hypnotism, mediumehip, oriental mysteries, spirit photography, spirit - writing, spirit voices, spirit materialization, ethereal- ization, numerology, physiognomy, psychometry, seership, prophecy, augury, divination, magic or necromancy, or other similar 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 received, 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 Z. Every person who, by means of occult or psyohlo powers, faculties or forces, spirits, cards, talismans, charms, potions, magnetism or magnetized articles or substances, oriental mysteries or any craft or art de- scribed in section one 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 OR ore or metal or natural product, restore 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 indirectly 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 prohibited by this ordinance, is guilty of a misdemeanor. SECTION 4. That any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not to exceed Three Hundred Dollars, or by imprisonment in the City Jail of the City of E1 Segundo, California, or in the County Jail of Los Angeles County, California, as the committing magistrate may determine, for a period not exceeding three months, or by both such fine and imprisonment In the discretion of the Court. SECTION 5. 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 olroum- stances, shall not be affected thereby. SECTION 6. This ordinance supersedes the provisions of Section 24 of Ordinance No. 12, of said City, except that if it is held that any art or craft described in this ordi- nanoe oan not constitutionally be prohibited, then as to such art or draft, the provisions of such section of the said ordinance No. 12 shall remain in full force and effect. 2- SECTION 7. That this ordinance shall become effective at midnight on the thirtieth day from and after the date of the adoption thereof, SECTION S. That the City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of this ordinance and shall cause the same to be published once in the official paper of said City, to -wit: the El Segundo Herald, a weekly newspaper printed, published and circulated within said City and which is hereby designated for that purpose. Passed, approved and adopted this 30th day of December , A. D. , 1942. Mayor of th ity oT El Segundo, California STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES SS CITY OF EL SEGUNDO I, Victor D. McCarthy, City Clerk of the City of E1 Segundo, California, do hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council of the said City is five; that the foregoing ordinance, being Ordinance No. 267 , was duly passed and adopted by the said City Council, approved and signed by the Mayor of said City, and attested by the City Clerk of said City, all at a regular meeting of the said Council held on the 30th day of December , A. D., 1942, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote: W AXES: Councilmen Gerow, Hesser, Peterson and Mayor Love NOES: Counoilmen None ABSENT: Counoilmen Selby 99) a-- p �4RAN� � � �fttjv Clerk of the Cily—&PEI .... 4.• CLERK IS CERTIFICATE STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES CITY OF EL S EGUNDO I. Victor D. McCarthy, City Clerk of the City of El Segundo, California, do hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council of the said City is fire; that the foregoing ordinance, being Ordinance No. 267 , is a full, true and correct original of Ordinance No. 267 of the said City of El Segundo, California, entitled: "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, PROHIBITING FORTUNE- TELLING AND SIMILAR PRACTICES FOR COMPENSATION OR DONATION.". which was duly passed and adopted by the said City Council, approved and signed by the Mayor of said City, and attested by the City Clerk of said City, all at a regular meeting of the said Council held on the 30th day of December , 1942, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Councilmen _ Gerow. Hesser, Peterson and Mayor Love • NOES: Councilmen None ; ABSENT: Councilmen selby I do hereby further certify that pursuant to the provisions of Section 878 of Act 5233 of the General Laws of the State of California, (Deering 1923 Edition) as amended to date, that the foregoing Ordinance.No. 267 was duly and regularly published according to law and the order of the City Council of said City in the E1 Segundo Herald, a weekly newspaper of general circulation, printed, pub- lished and circulated w1 thin the said City, and that the same was so published therein on the following date, to -wit: January 7th, 1943 . WITNESS my hand and the seal of said City this 8th day of January , 1943. (SEAL) . _...i Affidavit of Publication STATE OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, ML CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, Frank L. Snow . .... . ...... . . . ..... ....... ........ . .................. being first duly sworn, deposes and says: That he is, and at all of the times hereinafter mentioned was, a citizen of the United States of America, over the age of eighteen years, and a resident of the County of Los Angeles, State of California; that he was, at, and during all of the time of the publication of the instrument hereunto attached the.._......_.._ . . . . ..... ... .............. ................... . ... .... . .. MtWM and publisher of EL SEGUNDO HERALD, a newspaper of general circulation, printed, pub- lished and circulated WEEKLY in the City of El Segundo, In said County and State; that said news- paper has been so printed, published and circulated at regular Intervals of one week for more than one year Immediately preceding the publication of the instrument hereunto annexed; that said newspaper is, and was, at all of the times herein mentioned, a newspaper of general circulation within the meaning of Section 4460 of the Political Code of the State of California; that as provided by said section,. said newspaper is published for the dissemination of local or telegraphic news and Intelligence of a gen- eral character, having a bona fide subscription list of paying subscribers; that said newspaper in not and was not at any of the times herein referred to, devoted to the Interests, or published for the enter- tainment or Instruction of a particular class, profession, trade, calling, race or denomination, or for any number of such classes, professions, trades, callings, races or denominations, and that said news- paper is not devoted to or published for, nor was it at any of the times herein mentioned devot44 to or published for the purpose, whether avowed or otherwise, of entertaining or Instructing such classes, professions, trades, callings, races or denominations, or any of such classes, professions, trades, call- ings, races or denominations. 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D. 194.,o. - City Clerk of the Cit of egundo, C�ty of Los Ang es, State of Califo a. 13Y Deputy City Clerk of Said City.