Sec. 25A-1. Definitions.
Sec. 25A-2. License - Required.
Sec. 25A-3. Same - Display.
Sec. 25A-4. Same - Investigation of applicant.
Sec. 25A-5. Same - Applicant to furnish names of employees and other information.
Sec. 25A-6. Same - Fee; refund.
Sec. 25A-7. Same - Refusal to issue or renew.
Sec. 25A-8. Same - Revocation, suspension.
Sec. 25A-9. Same - Appeal from refusal to grant or renew; from decision to revoke or suspend.
Sec. 25A-10. Hours of operation; living, etc., quarters therein prohibited.
Sec. 25A-11. Inspection of massage establishments; examination of employees.
Sec. 25A-12. List of employees.
Sec. 25A-13. Operation in residential area prohibited.
Sec. 25A-14. Sanitary requirements.
Sec. 25A-15. Administering massage to person of opposite sex.
For the purpose of this chapter the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
(a) CHIEF OF POLICE means the chief of police of the city of Dallas, or his duly authorized representative.
(b) DIRECTOR means the director of the department designated by the city manager to enforce and administer this chapter or the director’s authorized representative.
(c) MASSAGE means any process consisting of kneading, rubbing, or otherwise manipulating the skin of the body of a human being, either with the hand or by means of electrical instruments or apparatus, or other special apparatus, but shall not include massage by duly licensed physicians and chiropractors, and registered physical therapists who treat only patients recommended by a licensed physician and who operate only under such physician’s direction, nor massage of the face practiced by beauty parlors or barbershops duly licensed under the penal code of the state.
(d) MASSAGE ESTABLISHMENT means any building, room, place or establishment, other than a regularly licensed hospital, where manipulated massage or manipulated exercises are practiced upon the human body by anyone not a duly licensed physician or chiropractor whether with or without the use of mechanical, therapeutic or bathing devices, and shall include Turkish bathhouses. This term shall not include, however, duly licensed beauty parlors or barbershops or a place wherein registered physical therapists treat only patients recommended by a licensed physician and operate only under such physician’s direction. (Ord. Nos. 13752; 15526; 17226)
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a massage establishment without first having obtained a license therefor from the assessor and collector of taxes in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, or to operate a massage establishment after such license has been revoked, or during a period for which such license has been suspended. Such license shall be issued only upon the payment of the fee specified in Section 25A-6 and upon the approval in writing of the director and the chief of police upon the issuance of a certificate of occupancy from the building official. Such license shall expire on the 31st day of December of each year. (Ord. Nos. 13752; 15526)
After an application has been made for issuance of an original license or a renewal of an existing license to operate a massage establishment as defined herein, the chief of police, as the principal enforcement officer of this chapter, shall determine whether the applicant has been finally convicted in any court of theft, fornication, sodomy, procuring, pandering, keeping a bawdy house, keeping an assignation house, engaging in prostitution or engaging in assignation, or whether such establishment employs any person who has been finally convicted in any court of theft, fornication, sodomy, procuring, pandering, keeping a bawdy house, keeping an assignation house, engaging in prostitution or engaging in assignation. (Ord. 13752)
At the time of making application for the license required by this chapter the applicant shall furnish to the chief of police the names, addresses, race, sex, date of birth, and telephone number of the applicant, his spouse and of all employees of the massage establishment. (Ord. Nos. 13752; 15526)
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