For the purpose of this Division, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed to them as follows:
(a) Employee. Any and all persons, other than the masseurs or masseuses, who render any service to the permittee, who receive compensation directly from the permittee, and who have no physical contact with customers and clients.
(b) Massage. Any method of pressure on or friction against, or stroking, kneading, rubbing, tapping, pounding, vibrating, or stimulating of the external soft parts of the body with the hands or with the aid of any mechanical or electrical apparatus or appliance with or without such supplementary aids as rubbing alcohol, liniments, antiseptics, oils, powder, creams, lotions, ointments or other similar preparations commonly used in this practice.
(c) Massage Establishment. Any building, room, place, or establishment, other than:
(1) A massage therapy school certified by the state;
(2) A regularly licensed hospital or associated facility or dispensary; or
A facility wherein each person who administers a massage is exempt from permit requirement under 4-71; where massages, nonmedical, and nonsurgical manipulative exercises are practiced upon the human body with or without the use of mechanical or bath devices, by anyone not a physician, osteopath, chiropractor, podiatrist or physical therapist duly registered with and licensed by the state.
(d) Masseur or masseuse. Any person who, for any consideration whatsoever, engages in the practice of massage but does not meet the criteria for permit exemption under 4-71.
(e) Massage therapist. A person who possesses a certification or license from the State of Indiana to provide massage therapy and meets the criteria for permit exemption.
(f) Massage Therapy. A health care service profession involving a certified and/or licensed practitioner applying manual techniques, and who may apply additional therapies for purposes of enhancing the health and well-being of a client.
(g) Massage Therapy Practice. A building, room, place, or establishment that employs only massage therapists to perform massage therapy.
(h) Recognized School. Any school or institution of learning which has for its purpose the teaching of the theory, method, profession, or work of massage, which school requires a resident course of study not less than seventy (70) hours to be given in not more than three (3) calendar months before the student shall be furnished with a diploma or certificate of graduation from such school or institution of learning following the successful completion of such course of study or learning. (1983 Greenwood Municipal Code, § 7-61) (Ord. 19-19, § 1, 8-5-19)