(a) Any person, association, firm, or corporation desiring to obtain a massage practitioner or massage establishment license shall make application to the City Manager or his designee, who shall refer each such application to the Chief of Police for appropriate investigation. A person desiring licenses authorizing him to perform the activities of a massage practitioner and, in addition, to conduct or operate a massage establishment shall submit two separate applications.
(b) The application shall be accompanied by a nonrefundable fee to be set by the City Manager or his designee at an amount determined by the City Manager or his designee as sufficient to pay the costs of administering this program.
(c) An applicant for a massage practitioner or massage establishment license shall submit the following to the City Manager or his designee:
(1) The full legal name and current residence address of the applicant;
(2) Any other names by which the applicant has been known;
(3) The address at which applicant desires to do business;
(4) The two residence addresses immediately prior to the present residence address of applicant, and the dates of residence at each;
(5) Written proof that the applicant is over the age of twenty-one years if applying for a massage establishment license, or over the age of eighteen years if applying for a massage practitioner license;
(6) Two portrait photographs, approximately two inches by two inches in size, taken within the previous six months;
(7) The business license history of the applicant, including whether the applicant, in previously operating in the City, other municipalities, other political subdivisions, the State of Ohio or other states under a licensed business, has had such licenses revoked or suspended; and if so, the reason therefor, the business activity or occupation preceding such suspension or revocation, and the business activity or occupation subsequent to such suspension or revocation;
(8) All felony and misdemeanor convictions, excluding those for traffic offenses, and the grounds for such convictions;
(9) The applicant's complete fingerprints, to be recorded by the City Police Department;
(10) The applicant's education, training and experience in the administration, practice or use of the subjects and methods listed in Section 713.01(d), including diplomas or credentials from schools or institutions of learning. The educational requirements for massage practitioner license applicants shall include certification of satisfactory completion of a minimum of 160 hours of course instruction in anatomy, physiology and massage or touching techniques from a school of massage approved by the State Medical Board of Ohio or an equivalent board from outside this state, or accredited by an accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department of Education or the Council on Post Secondary Accreditation.
(11) Any other identification and information as the City Police Department may require in order to discover or verify the truth of the above requirements to be set forth in the application.
(Ord. 97-2. Passed 1-9-97.)