(a) Every applicant for a license to maintain, operate or conduct a massage establishment, including a renewal thereof, shall file a written application under oath with the City upon a form provided by the Mayor or a designee thereof and pay a nonrefundable annual license fee, which shall be one hundred dollars ($100.00) per year or any part thereof. The application once accepted shall be referred to the Police Department for investigation. Copies of the application shall within five days also be referred to the Division of Building and the Fire Department. The Division of Building and Fire Department shall within thirty days inspect the premises proposed to be operated as a massage establishment and shall make written verification to the Police Department concerning compliance with the codes of the City and State that they administer.
(b) The applicant for a massage establishment license, including any partner or limited partner of a partnership, and any officer or director of a corporate applicant and any stockholder holding ten percent (10%) or more of the stock, shall furnish on the application form provided, duly dated and signed, the following information:
(1) The full name, residence address, residence telephone number, social security number, age and birthdate of the applicant together with evidence satisfactory to the Director that the applicant is at least eighteen years of age;
(2) The physical description of the applicant, including height, weight, color of hair and eyes, and sex;
(3) The business, occupation or employment of the applicant for the three years immediately preceding the date of application;
(4) All residence addresses of the applicant for the three years immediately preceding the date of application;
(5) A complete set of fingerprints obtained by the Police Department and a recent two inch by two inch photograph of the applicant;
(6) All criminal convictions, other than misdemeanor traffic violations, of the applicant including date, nature of the crime and place convicted;
(7) The location and all telephone numbers of the premises proposed to be operated as a massage establishment;
(8) The name, residence address and telephone number of the owner or owners and lessor or lessors of the premises upon or in which the massage establishment is proposed to be conducted and a copy of the lease or rental agreement;
(9) A description of any other business operated or to be operated by the applicant on the same or adjoining premises owned or controlled by the applicant;
(10) The name and address of any massage establishment owned, operated or controlled by the applicant;
(11) Whether the applicant or any person owning or controlling the premises has ever had a massage or massage establishment, or similar license ever denied, revoked or suspended and, if so, when, where and the reasons therefor;
(12) The number of employees, massagists and other persons to be employed or working on the premises;
(13) If the applicant is a corporation or a partnership, the name and address of the corporation or partnership shall be set forth exactly as shown on the articles of incorporation, the certificate of partnership, the certificate of limited partnership or the statement of limited partnership association; and
(14) Such other information as the Director may require.
(Ord. 86-45. Passed 10-6-86; Ord. 02-34. Passed 7-22-02.)