(a) The permittee or a manager approved in connection with the issuance of a permit under this chapter shall be present on the premises at all times when the establishment is in operation.
(b) Price rates for all services shall be prominently posted in the reception area in a location available to all prospective customers.
(c) Every portion of the massage establishment, including appliances and apparatus, shall be kept clean and shall be operated in a sanitary condition.
(d) All employees, including masseurs and masseuses, shall be clean and wear opaque but not translucent or transparent outer garments covering the sexual areas. The use of such garments worn by masseurs or masseuses is to be restricted to the massage establishment. A person applying or administering massages shall, while so doing, be clad from the shoulders to the knee by a robe, smock or other opaque garment so that the patron or customer is protected from bodily contact with the person applying or administering the massage, except for the hands and arms of such person applying or administering such massage.
(e) A separate dressing room for each sex must be available on the premises with individual lockers for each employee. Doors to such dressing rooms shall open inward and shall be self-closing,
(f) The sexual area of patrons must be covered by towels, cloths or undergarments whenever the patron is in the presence of another person, including a masseur, masseuse or other employee,
(g) No person, in a massage establishment, shall place his or her hand upon, touch with any part, clad or unclad, of his or her body, fondle in any manner, or massage, a sexual area of any person,
(h) No person, including a masseur, masseuse, employee or establishment permittee, shall perform or agree to perform an act which would require the touching of a patron's sexual area. No person shall massage any other person or give or administer any other person a bath or any of the procedures or services set forth in Section 848, 01(c), for immoral purposes or in a manner which is intended to arouse, appeal to or gratify the lust, passion or sexual desire of such other person.
(i) No owner or manager of a massage establishment shall authorize or tolerate in his or her establishment any activity or behavior that is prohibited by the laws of the State or the ordinances of the City, including such laws proscribing acts of prostitution, sodomy, adultery, fornication or any lewd or obscene act or performance. A conviction of the manager or an employee of a massage establishment of a violation of any of such laws or ordinances shall be grounds for revocation of the permit of such establishment as herein provided.
(j) All massage establishments shall be provided with clean, laundered sheets and towels in sufficient quantity and shall be laundered after each use thereof and stored in a sanitary manner. No towel, wash cloth or other linen item shall come in contact with the body or any part thereof of a customer or patron at a massage establishment without first having been laundered after its previous use upon another person. Heavy white paper may be substituted for sheets, provided that such paper is changed for every person.
(k) All walls, ceilings, floors, pools, showers, bathtubs, steam rooms and all other facilities shall be in good repair and maintained in a clean and sanitary condition. Wet and dry heat rooms, steam or vapor rooms, steam or vapor cabinets, shower compartments and toilet rooms shall be thoroughly cleaned each day the business is in operation. Bathtubs and showers shall be thoroughly cleaned after each use. When carpeting is used on the floor, it shall be kept dry.
(l) Floors shall be free from any accumulation of dust, dirt or refuse.
(m) No eating in the massage work areas shall be permitted.
(n) 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 a massage establishment.
(o) No animal, with the exception of a seeing-eye dog, shall be permitted in a massage establishment.
(p) No person under age eighteen shall be permitted to come onto or to remain upon the premises of any massage establishment in any capacity, including that of masseur, masseuse, employee or patron, unless such person is on the premises in order to conduct lawful business.
(q) No masseur or masseuse shall administer a massage to a patron exhibiting any skin fungus, skin infection, skin inflammation or skin eruption, unless a physician duly licensed by the State certifies in writing that such person may be safely massaged and prescribes the conditions thereof,
(r) Each masseur and masseuse shall wash his or her hands in hot running water, using a proper soap or disinfectant, before administering a massage to each patron and after each such massage.
(s) No masseur, masseuse or other employee or attendant in a massage establishment shall apply or administer a massage or other treatment to a person in a room the door of which is capable of being locked.
(t) No person shall render a service to the public upon the premises of a massage establishment, except during the time that the establishment is open with free access thereto by the public.
(u) No person shall conduct or operate a massage establishment between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. of the following day.
(v) No massage establishment shall be used as and for a dormitory or place of sleep, nor shall any licensee under this chapter permit a massage establishment to be so used.
(w) No owner or operator of a massage establishment which is granted a permit under this chapter shall place, publish or distribute or cause to be placed, published or distributed any advertising matter that depicts a portion of the human body that would reasonably suggest to prospective patrons that any services are available, other than those services described in Section 848.01(c), or in which employees, masseurs or masseuses are dressed in any manner other than that prescribed in subsection (d) hereof, nor shall an owner or operator of a massage establishment indicate in the text of such advertising that any services are available which are prohibited by this chapter or services other than those described in Section 848.01(c).
(x) No massage shall be administered or applied by a permittee under this chapter or by an employee, operator or attendant while working for such permittee, except in or upon the premises or regular place of business of such permittee where the massage establishment permit is regularly displayed and at the place and location which is designated for the operation of such massage establishment in such permit.
(y) A violation of a provision of this section shall, in addition to the penalty provided in Section 848.99, be grounds for suspension or revocation of the permit of the owner or manager of the massage establishment as provided herein.
(Ord. 435. Passed 1-16-78.)