For the purposes of this chapter:
ADMINISTRATIVE HEARING OFFICER: | The person appointed by the city manager to preside and conduct a business license violation appeal hearing under this chapter. The hearing officer may be a department head, other than the supervisor of the business license official, or a non-city employed person with requisite skill and experience. |
BUSINESS LICENSE OFFICIAL: | The business license official of Clearfield city, or any individual designated by the business license official to act on his or her behalf. |
CITY: | Clearfield city. |
CITY MASSAGE THERAPIST IDENTIFICATION BADGE: | That badge which is issued by the city to a licensed massage therapist that will provide massage services in a massage establishment. |
COMPENSATION: | A payment, loan, advance, donation, contribution, deposit, forgiveness of debt, or gift of money or anything of value. |
CONVICTED: | Having pled guilty or having received a verdict of guilty, including a verdict following a plea of nolo contendere or no contest to a crime, as well as entering into a plea held in abeyance or in a diversion, or any other similar type of plea agreement. |
DEPARTMENT: | The city's licensing division. |
DOPL: | The Utah Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing, which is located within the Department of Commerce and is legislatively charged to administer and enforce specific laws related to the licensing and regulations of certain occupations and professions, including massage. |
INSPECTOR: | A department employee responsible for conducting inspections on behalf of the department. |
LICENSED MASSAGE THERAPIST: | An individual who administers massage for compensation and holds a valid and active license to practice massage issued by DOPL, including those individuals that have a DOPL license as a massage apprentice. |
MASSAGE: | Any method of pressure on or friction against, or stroking, kneading, rubbing, tapping, pounding, vibrating, or stimulating the external soft pads of the body with the hands or with the aid of any apparatus or appliance. |
MASSAGE BUSINESS: | Massage establishment, outcall massage service, and sole massage therapist establishment, collectively. |
MASSAGE ESTABLISHMENT: | A fixed place of business where more than one individual administers massage for compensation, excluding those locations where massage is provided only on an outcall basis. |
OUTCALL MASSAGE SERVICE: | Any business other than a massage establishment or sole massage therapist establishment that provides massage for compensation at a location designated by the client rather than on its premises. |
OWNER: | Any individual, partnership, firm, association, corporation, or combination of individuals of whatever form or character with an ownership interest in a business that provides massage services. |
SOLE MASSAGE THERAPIST ESTABLISHMENT: | A fixed place of business solely owned by a massage therapist, which individual is the only person who provides massage for compensation. |
SOLE PRACTITIONER: | A licensed massage therapist who provides massage for compensation without any partners, associates, or employees, and absent any business relationship with a massage establishment. (Ord. 2019-24, 9-10-2019) |