(A) Posting of license. A therapeutic massage enterprise license issued must be posted in a conspicuous place on the premises for which it is used. A person licensed as a massage therapist shall have on such person at all times therapeutic massage services are rendered the photo identification card issued by the city.
(B) Licensed premises. A therapeutic massage enterprise license is only effective for the compact and contiguous space specified in the approved license application. If the licensed premises is enlarged, altered, or extended, the licensee shall inform the city. A massage therapist license shall entitle the licensed therapist to perform on-site massage at a business, public gathering, private home, or other site not on the therapeutic massage enterprise premises.
(C) Transfer of license prohibited. The license issued is for the person or the premises named on the approved license application, No transfer of a license shall be permitted from place to place or from person to person without complying with the requirements of an original application.
(D) Affiliation with enterprise required. A massage therapist shall be employed by, affiliated with, or own a massage enterprise business licensed by the city, unless a person or place is specifically exempted from obtaining a therapeutic massage enterprise license in § 118.05 of this code.
(E) Employment of unlicensed massage therapists prohibited. No therapeutic massage enterprise shall employ or use any person to perform massage who is not licensed as a therapeutic massage therapist under this chapter, unless the person is specifically exempted from obtaining a therapist license in § 118.05 of this code.
(F) Coverage of genitals during massage. The licensee shall require that the person who is receiving the massage shall at all times have his or her genitals covered with non-transparent material or clothing.
(G) Therapist clothing requirements. Any therapist performing massage shall at all times have his or her breasts, buttocks, anus, and genitals covered with a non-transparent material or clothing.
(H) Effect of license suspension or revocation. No licensee shall solicit business or offer to perform massage services while under license suspension or revocation by the city.
(I) Massage of certain body parts prohibited. At no time shall the massage therapist intentionally massage or offer to massage the penis, scrotum, mons veneris, vulva, or vaginal area of a person.
(J) Alcohol is prohibited. No beer, liquor, narcotic drug or controlled substances, as such terms are defined by state statutes or the City Code, shall be permitted on licensed premises.
(K) Locks. No doors of massage rooms, when occupied by 1 or more persons, shall be locked. All locks, if any, shall be keyed only from the exterior of the massage rooms.
(L) Discrimination. No massage therapy establishment shall discriminate between persons on the basis of race, color, creed, sex or national origin or ancestry.
(M) Non-business hours. No licensee may be open for business between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. of any day.
(Ord. 2007-008, passed 6-4-2007) Penalty, see § 10.99