Baltimore City Public Local Laws, Subtitle 24, § 24-1 Fortune tellers.
§ 24-1 Fortune tellers.
Every person who shall demand or accept any remuneration or gratuity for forecasting or foretelling or for pretending to forecast or foretell the future of another by cards, palmreading or any other scheme, practice or device, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not more than $500 or subject to imprisonment for not more than 1 year; and in any indictment for a violation of the above provisions, it shall be sufficient to allege that the defendant forecast and foretold or pretended to forecast or foretell the future by a certain scheme, practice or device without setting forth the particular scheme, practice or device employed.
(Ord. 94-314; 1898, ch. 123, §865.)