No license to conduct a massage establishment shall be issued unless an inspection by the Inspector first assures that the establishment complies with each of the following minimum requirements.
(A) Construction of rooms used for toilets, tubs, steam baths and showers shall be made waterproof with approved waterproofed materials and shall be installed in accordance with the Uniform Building Code. Plumbing fixtures shall be installed in accordance with established city codes.
(1) For toilet rooms, toilet room vestibules and rooms containing bathtubs, there shall be water proof floor covering, which will be carried up all walls to an absorbent finish surface of Keene’s cement, tile or similar material.
(2) Steam rooms and shower compartments shall have waterproof floors, walls and ceilings approved by the inspector.
(3) Floors of wet and dry heat rooms shall be adequately pitched to one or more floor drains properly connected to the sewer. (Exception: dry heat rooms with wooden floors need not be provided with pitched floors and floor drains).
(4) A source of hot water must be available within the immediate vicinity of dry and wet heat rooms to facilitate cleaning.
(B) Toilet facilities shall be provided in convenient locations. When five or more employees and patrons of different sexes are on the premises at the same time, separate toilet facilities shall be provided. A single water closet per sex shall be provided for each 20 or more employees or patrons of that sex on the premises at any one time. Urinals may be substituted for water closets after one water closet has been provided. All toilet rooms shall be equipped with self-closing doors opening in the direction of ingress to the toilet rooms. Toilets shall be designated as to the sex accommodated therein.
(C) Lavatories or wash basins provided with both hot and cold running water shall be installed in either the toilet room or the vestibule. Lavatories or wash basins shall be provided with soap in a dispenser and with sanitary towels.
(D) All portions of massage establishments and baths shall be provided with adequate light and ventilation by means of windows or skylights with an area of not less than one-eighth of the total floor area, or shall be provided with approved artificial light and a mechanical operating ventilating system. When windows or skylights are used for ventilation, at least one-half of the total required window area shall be operable. To allow for adequate ventilation, cubicles, rooms and areas provided for patrons use not served directly by a required window, skylight or mechanical system of ventilation shall be constructed so that the height of partitions does not exceed 75% of the floor-to-ceiling height of the area in which they are located.
(E) All electrical equipment shall be installed in accordance with the requirements of the city’s Electrical Code. All mechanical equipment shall be installed in accordance with the requirements of the city’s Mechanical Code.
(F) No massage establishment granted a license under the provision of this chapter shall place, publish or distribute or cause to be placed, published or distributed any advertising matter that depicts any portion of the human body that would reasonably suggest to prospective patrons that service is available other than those services as described in § 1.00 of this chapter, nor shall any massage establishment indicate in the text of such advertising that any service is available other than those services as described in § 1.00 of this chapter.
(G) No service enumerated in the definition of MASSAGE in § 1.00
of this chapter may be carried on within any cubicle, room, booth or any area within a massage establishment, which is fitted with a door capable of being locked.
(H) The premises shall have adequate equipment for disinfecting and sterilizing non-disposal instruments and materials used in administering massages. Such non-disposal instruments and materials shall be disinfected after use on each patron.
(I) Clean linen and towels shall be provided for each massage patron. No common use of towels or linens shall be permitted.
(J) All massage tables, bathtubs, shower stalls, steam or bath areas and floors shall have surfaces which may be readily disinfected.
(K) Oils, creams, lotions or other preparations used in administering massages shall be kept in clean, closed containers or cabinets.
(L) Eating in the massage work areas shall not be permitted.
(M) Animals, except for seeing-eye dogs, shall not be permitted in the massage work areas.
(N) No massage technician shall administer a massage to a patron exhibiting any skin fungus, skin infection, skin inflammation or skin eruption; provided that a physician duly licensed by the state may certify that such person may be safely massaged prescribing the conditions thereof.
(O) No massage technician shall administer a massage if such massage technician knows or should know that he or she is not free of any contagious or communicable disease.
(P) Each massage technician shall wash his or her hands in hot, running water, using a proper soap or disinfectant before administering a massage to each patron.
(Q) No massage establishment shall operate between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.