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)