The city of Wichita is expected to move forward with a purge of unused and outdated licensing requirements. Fortune-tellers, auctioneers and airport limousine operators are among those who may soon be free of the legal requirement to obtain a license from the city. The City Council will vote Tuesday on a proposal to strike 15 such licensing requirements from the books. “There are a lot of changes that we want to do, but we thought we’d pick basically the low-hanging fruit first and go for the easy ones that we don’t use very often,” Assistant City Attorney Jan Jarman told City Council members at a recent workshop where she outlined the licenses identified as obsolete by the law department. License requirements should only exist if they protect the public or otherwise promote a healthy community, she said. Those that don’t aren’t needed. Wichita issued only one clairvoyant/fortune teller license in 2023, records show.
Source: Local News | Wichita Eagle
