HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD-55-79 REGULATING HYNOSIS AND THE TEACHING OF SELF HYPNOSIS AND THE LICENSING OF SUCH PRACTITIONERSIIANGE CITY NEWS: Please publish Wednesday, November 28, 1979 only and send PROOF
PUBLICATION to City Clerk, 1'.0, Box 449, Orange, California 92666.
ORDINANCE NO. 55-79 MARILYN J. JENSElh... CI~~
ERK AN
ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
ORANGE REGULATING THE PRACTICE OF HYPNOSIS AND
THE TEACHING OF SELF-HYPNOSIS AND PROVIDING
FOR THE LICENSING OF SUCH PRACTITIONERS.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ORANGE DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION I:
Section 4210.1 of the Orange Municipal Code shall be amended
in its entirety to read as follows:
section 4210.1 Hypnotism, Practice and Teaching
No person shall carryon, or practice, exhibit or teach
the business or the art or practice of hypnosis, nor teach
self-hypnosis to any person undergoing a course of
treatment or program of self-improvement except under one
of the
following conditions:a) The hypnosis or teaching of self-
hypnosis is done pursuant to the provisions of and for
the purposes set forth in Section 2908 of the
Business and Professions Code of the State of California, and if
performed by a person licensed to practice
medicine, dentistry or psychology in the State of California, or
by a person licensed to practice in the State of
California as a clinical social worker or as a
marriage
and family counselor.b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit
a peace officer,as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing
with Section 830)of Title 3 of Part 2 of the California
Penal Code, from utilizing hypnosis in the fulfillment of
his or her duties as
a peace
officer.SECTION II:If any section, subsection, sentence, clause
or phrase of this ordinance is for any reason held to be
invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of
competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of
the remaining portions of the ordinance. The City Council hereby declares
that it would have passed this ordinance and each
section, subsection, sentence,clause and phrase thereof, irrespective of the
fact that anyone or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses
or phrases be declared
invalid or
unconstitutional.SECTION III:Any person violating any of the provisions
of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and,
upon conviction thereof,shall be subject to a fine not exceeding
Five Hundred Dollars 500.00), or by imprisonment for not more than
six (6) months,or by both such
SECTION IV:
This ordinance shall be published once within fifteen (15)
days afte: its p,;ssage in, the orange, Ci ty News, a newspaper of
general cl.rcu1atl.on, pub1l.shed and cl.rcu1ated in the City of
Orange, and shall take effect thirty (30) days from and after
the date of its final passage.
20th day of NovemberADOPTEDthis 1979.
J.~~-~ ~Mayor
of
the City of range ATTEST:c./
ity
C1er of
ci of Orange STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF ORANGE
s s CITY OF ORANGE
I, MARILYN J,
JENSEN, City Clerk of the City of Orange, California,DO HEREBY CERTIFY
that the foregoing ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting of
the City Council duly held on the 13th day of November 1979, and thereafter
at a regular meeting of said City Council duly held on the
20th day of November, 1979, was duly passed and adopted by the following
vote, to wit:AYES:NOES:ABSENT:
COUNCILMEN:
COUNCILMEN:
COUNCILMEN:
BARRERA,
SMITH,
MAYOR
HOYT, BEAM NONE PEREZ WITNESS
my
hand
and seal this 21st day of November, 1979,r~Marilyn J.
Jensen
City Clerk of
the City of Orange 2-