(A) Sanitation generally. Every place where massage is being conducted, including appliances and apparatus, shall be kept clean and operated in a sanitary condition.
(B) Employee register. The licensee or person designated by the licensee of a massage establishment shall maintain a register of all persons employed at any time as massage therapists and their license numbers issued by the State of Oklahoma. Such register shall be posted at the massage establishment at all times.
(C) Employment of massage therapists. No person shall employ as a massage therapist any person unless said employer has obtained and has in effect a license issued pursuant to this chapter.
(D) Contagious disease. Except as otherwise provided, no manager of any massage establishment shall employ or permit any massage therapist to work and no massage therapist shall work in any establishment or location which is affected with any infectious, contagious or communicable disease or any disease which may, by law, be required to be reported to the Health Department of the state.
(E) Required dress. All employees of a massage establishment, and all massage therapists, shall be clean and wear clean, non-transparent outer garments, covering the sexual and genital areas.
(F) Sheets and towels. All places where massage is being conducted shall have clean, laundered sheets and towels in sufficient quantities which shall be laundered after each use thereof and stored in a sanitary manner.
(G) Operating hours. No massage establishment or off-site service shall be kept open or performed between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m.
(H) Persons under 18 prohibited on premises. No person shall permit any person under the age of 18 years to come or remain on the premises of any massage establishment as a massage therapist, employee, patron, or in any other capacity without parental/legal guardian presence or written consent, unless such person is on the premises on lawful business.
(I) Alcoholic beverages. No person shall sell, give, dispense, provide or keep, or cause to be sold, given, dispensed, provided or kept, any alcoholic beverage on the premises of any massage establishment or where massage is being conducted.
(J) Indecent conduct.
(1) It shall be unlawful for any person conducting a massage to place his/her hand or hands upon, to touch with any part of his/her body, to fondle in any manner, or to massage, a sexual or genital area of any other person.
(2) It shall be unlawful for any person conducting a massage to expose his/her sexual or genital areas, or any portion thereof, to any other person. It shall also be unlawful for any person conducting a massage to expose the sexual or genital areas, or any portions thereof, of any other person.
(3) It shall be unlawful for any person, while in the presence of any other person conducting a massage, to fail to conceal with a fully opaque covering the sexual or genital areas of the body.
(4) It shall be unlawful for any person owning, operating or managing a massage establishment to knowingly cause, allow or permit in or about such massage establishment any agent, employee, or any other person under his/her control or supervision to perform such acts prohibited in divisions (J)(1), (2) or (3) above.
(5) A violation of any of divisions (J)(1) through (4) is subject to penalty as set forth in § 10.99.
(K) Cubicles, booths, and the like. It shall be unlawful for any massage to be carried on within any cubicle, room, booth, or any area which is fitted with a door capable of being locked. Nothing contained herein shall be construed to eliminate other requirements of statute or ordinance concerning the maintenance of premises, nor to preclude authorized inspection thereof, whenever inspection is deemed necessary by the police or Health Department. A violation is subject to penalty as set forth in § 10.99
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(Ord. 2036, passed 9-20-22)