Article XX. Stress Relief Establishments and Stress Relief Therapists
5.08.1260 Definitions.
Except where the context otherwise requires, the words and phrases hereinafter set forth shall have the following meanings ascribed to them unless the context clearly requires to the contrary.
(1) “Stress” shall mean any physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual condition or state to which a person fails to satisfactorily adapt, causing adverse physiologic reaction(s). Symptoms of such reaction include, but are not limited to, nervousness, anxiety, headaches, insomnia, depression, dizziness, digestion problems and aches and pains.
(2) “Stress relief therapy” shall mean any method administered through written, verbal, or other nonphysical communication whose stated or advertised purpose is the diagnosis, prevention, treatment, or amelioration of stress and its ill effects.
(3) “Stress relief establishment” shall mean any establishment having a fixed place of business where any person engages in, conducts, or carries on, or so permits, any business of given stress relief therapy.
(4) “Stress relief therapist” shall mean any person who administers stress relief therapy to another person for any form of consideration.
(5) “Employee” shall mean any person, other than a stress relief therapist, who renders any service to a stress relief establishment, and who receives compensation directly from the stress relief establishment licensee or his agent.
(6) “Out call stress relief therapy” shall mean any business which engages in or carries on stress relief therapy and which business is not located at a fixed location but at a location designated by the customer or client.
(7) “Massage” shall mean any method of treating the external parts of the body for remedial health, or hygienic purposes as further defined in CMC 5.08.1110. (Ord. 505 § 3. 2002 Code § 6-34.1).