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No person shall engage in, conduct, or carry on, or so license, any massage establishment unless each and all of the following requirements are met:

(1) Each person employed or acting as a massage technician shall have a valid license issued by the director. It shall be unlawful for any owner, manager, operator, responsible managing employee, or licensee in charge of or in control of a massage establishment to employ or license a person to act as a massage technician who is not in possession of a valid, unrevoked massage technician license issued pursuant to this article.

The possession of a valid massage establishment license does not authorize the possessor to perform work for which a massage technician license is required.

(2) Massage and bath operations may be carried on or conducted, and the premises may be open, only between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m.

(3) A list of available services and the cost of such services shall be posted in an open public place within the premises and shall be described in readily understandable language. No owner, manager, operator, responsible managing employee, or licensee shall license, and no massage technician shall offer or perform, any service other than those posted.

(4) The massage establishment license and a copy of the license of each and every massage technician employed in the establishment shall be displayed in an open and conspicuous place on the premises.

(5) Every massage establishment shall keep a written record of the date and hour of each treatment, the name and address of each customer, the name of the massage technician administering the treatment, and the type of treatment authorized and administered. The records shall be maintained for a period of two years.

Only those officials who are charged with enforcement of this article shall inspect these records and they shall not use any information contained therein for any purpose other than enforcement of this article.

No massage establishment licensee or massage establishment shall utilize the records in any manner or for any purpose which is unrelated to enforcement of this article.

(6) Massage establishments shall at all times be equipped with an adequate supply of clean, sanitary towels, coverings, and linens. Clean towels, coverings, and linens shall be stored in cabinets. Towels and linens shall not be used on more than one customer or client, unless they have first been laundered and disinfected. Disposable towels and coverings shall not be used on more than one customer or client. Soiled linens and paper towels shall be deposited in separate, approved receptacles.

(7) If male and female customers or clients are to be treated at the same time at a massage establishment, a separate massage room or rooms, separate dressing facilities and separate toilet facilities shall be provided for male and female customers. Each such separate facility or room shall be clearly marked as such.

(8) In any establishment in which massage services are rendered only to members of the same sex at any one time, the operators of the massage establishment may elect either to place such persons of the same sex in separate rooms or booths or in a single separate room. In either case, there shall be adequate ventilation to an area outside said room or booth while massage services are being performed.

(9) Wet heat rooms, dry heat rooms, steam rooms, vapor rooms, showers, bathrooms, cabinet rooms, and pools shall be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected as often as needed and at least once each day the premises are open with a disinfectant approved by the health department.

Bath tubs shall be thoroughly cleaned with a disinfectant approved by the health department after each use.

All walls, ceilings, floors, and other physical facilities for the establishment shall be maintained in good repair and in a clean and sanitary condition.

(10) Instruments utilized in performing massage shall not be used on more than one patron unless they have been properly sterilized.

(11) All employees, including massage technicians, shall at all times while on the premises of the massage establishment be clean and shall wear clean, nontransparent outer garments covering the body from knee to neck; the use of such garment shall be restricted to the massage establishment. Separate dressing rooms for each sex, equipped with individual lockers for each employee, shall be available on the premises.

(12) No persons shall enter, be, or remain in any part of a massage establishment while in the possession of, consuming, or using alcoholic beverages or drugs, except pursuant to a prescription for such drugs. The owner, operator, responsible managing employee, manager, or licensee shall not license any person in violation of this section to enter or remain upon the premises.

(13) No massage establishment may operate as a school of massage, or use the same facilities as that of a school of massage.

(14) No massage establishment granted a license under this article may place, publish, or distribute, or so direct or license, any advertising matter which either depicts any portion of the human body or includes matter in its text which could be reasonably construed as suggesting to prospective customers or clients that any service is available other than massage or any other service which the massage establishment licensee is legally authorized to provide on the premises.

(15) No massage shall be given in a massage establishment within any cubicle, room, booth, or other area which is fitted with a door capable of being locked.

(16) All exterior doors shall remain unlocked during business hours from the interior side.

(17) No massage may be given unless the patron wears clothing which fully covers the patron’s genitals and, if the patron is female, breasts.

(18) No massage establishment may be open for business unless there is at least one massage technician holding a current, unrevoked license on the premises at all times.

(19) No persons other than the person receiving a massage and the administering massage technician may be within a room in a massage establishment wherein a massage is being given.

(20) The holder of a massage establishment license shall notify the director and sheriff’s department, in writing, of any change in information concerning the original application within 30 days of such change.

(21) The holder of a massage establishment license shall notify the director and sheriff’s department, in writing, of the name and address of each person employed as a massage technician subsequent to the issuance of the license within five business days of that person being employed. (Ord. 505 § 3. 2002 Code § 6-33.7).