Massage establishments must comply with each of the following minimum operational requirements:
A. No massage establishment shall be kept open for any purpose between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.
B. No massage establishment shall employ and/or allow any persons under the age of eighteen to perform massage or massage therapy.
C. Each person employed by a massage establishment, shall at all times wear clean outer garments with fully opaque coverings of such person’s sexual and/or genital areas.
D. The sexual and/or genital areas of patrons of massage establishments shall at all times be covered with towels, clothes or undergarments when in the presence of a person employed or other patron.
E. No person in any massage establishment under this chapter shall place his or her hand upon, touch with any part of his or her body, fondle in any manner, or massage a sexual and/or genital area of any other person.
F. No person in any massage establishment under this chapter shall perform, offer or agree to perform, any act which shall require the touching of the patron’s sexual and/or genital area.
G. Every massage establishment shall be open for inspection during all business hours and at other reasonable times by police officers, health and fire inspectors, and duly authorized representatives of the city upon the showing of proper credentials by such persons.
H. Price rates for all services shall be prominently posted in the reception area in a location available to all prospective customers.
I. No massage establishment shall place, publish, or distribute or cause to be placed, published or distributed any advertisement, picture, or statement which is known or through the exercise of reasonable care, should be known to be false, deceptive or misleading in order to induce any person to purchase or utilize any massage services.
(Ord. 6-2012, 2012)