(a) A person desiring to perform services as a masseur or masseuse shall make application to the City of Ashtabula upon forms prescribed by the City. Each application shall include an initial filing fee of $250.00 which shall be nonrefundable. Each application must be completed in its entirety upon return to the City. The completed application shall include the following information:
(1) The results of a physical examination performed by a licensed physician within thirty days of the application certifying that the applicant is free from communicable diseases.
(2) The full name, date of birth, present address, how long at present address, and social security number of the applicant, and the last previous employer of the applicant.
(3) Written authorization for an investigation into the criminal record of the person applying for the license, which will require the applicant to make an appointment with the City of Ashtabula Police Department to be photographed and fingerprinted for the background investigation;
(4) The applicant is at least twenty-one years of age or older.
(5) Any other information determined by the City of Ashtabula or their representatives to be necessary.
(b) Upon application, a representative of the City shall provide to the applicant a copy of this Chapter and all the necessary information and forms concerning masseur or masseuse and obtain a signed acknowledgment from the applicant acknowledging receipt thereof.
(c) Upon application, the City of Ashtabula shall have an investigation conducted on the information contained on the application and shall request the appropriate City departments to conduct an inspection of the proposed massage establishment in order to insure that it complies with the requirements of this chapter.
(d) A license issued under this section to a masseur or masseuse shall expire one year after the date of issuance, except that no masseur or masseuse shall be required to discontinue performing massages because of the failure of the City to act on a renewal application filed in a timely manner and pending before the City on the expiration date of the person's license.
(e) No City licensed non-medical massage establishment in the City will be located within 1,000 feet of any church, school or public playground.
(1) Each license shall contain the full name of the applicant, a color photograph and a brief description of the applicant and the expiration date of the license. The license shall be in the form prescribed by the City.
(2) Upon annual renewal, the applicant is required to make a renewal application to the City upon forms prescribed by the City, and the applicant shall include with the renewal application the results of a physical examination performed by a licensed physician within thirty days of the renewal application certifying that the applicant is free from communicable diseases. Each renewal application shall include a nonrefundable renewal fee of $250.00.
(f) This renewal application must be made to the City thirty days prior to the expiration of the existing license.
(Ord. 2003-04. Passed 1-6-03.)