(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to practice massage as a massagist, employee or otherwise, unless he or she has a valid and subsisting massagist’s permit issued to him or her by the town pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.
(B) Application for a massagist’s business permit shall be made to the Clerk-Treasurer in the same manner as provided for massage establishment licenses in § 113.20 of this chapter, accompanied by the annual non-refundable massagist’s permit fee of $500 per year. The application shall contain, but not be limited to, the following:
(1) Name and residence address and all names, nicknames and aliases by which the applicant has been known, including the two previous addresses immediately prior to the present address of the applicant;
(2) Social Security number and date of birth;
(3) Applicant’s weight, height, color of hair and eyes and sex;
(4) Written evidence that the applicant is at least 21 years of age;
(5) All criminal convictions of the applicant involving any act of violence, moral turpitude, sex offense or prior violation of this chapter, other than misdemeanor traffic violations, including the dates of convictions, nature of the crimes and place convicted;
(6) Fingerprints of the applicant taken by the Police Department;
(7) Two front-face portrait photographs taken within 30 days of the date of application and at least two inches by two inches in size;
(8) The massage or similar business history and experience for the ten years prior to the date of application, including, but not limited to, whether or not the person in previously operating in this or another city or state under a license or permit has had the license or permit denied, revoked or suspended and the reasons therefor, and the business activities or occupations subsequent to the action of denial, suspension or revocation;
(9) A medical certificate signed by a physician licensed to practice in the state, within seven days of the date of the application. The certificate shall state that the applicant was examined by the certifying physician and that the applicant is free of communicable disease. The additional information required by this division (B)(9) shall be provided at the applicant’s expense;
(10) Any other information, identification and physical examination of the person deemed necessary by the Town Marshal in order to discover the truth of the matters herein required to be set forth in the application;
(11) Authorization for the town, its agents and employees, to seek information and conduct an investigation into the truth of the statements set forth in the application and the qualifications of the applicant for the permit; and
(12) Written declaration by the applicant, under penalty of perjury, that the foregoing information contained in the application is true and correct, the declaration being duly dated and signed in the town.
(Prior Code, § 113.11) (Ord. 1-1978, passed 8-1-1978)