Every applicant for a license to maintain, operate or conduct a massage establishment shall file an application under oath with the City upon a form provided by the Department of Public Safety 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 Department of Public Safety for investigation. Copies of the application shall within five days also be referred to the Building Department, the Fire Department and the Health Department. The Departments shall within thirty days inspect the premises proposed to be operated as a massage establishment and shall make written verification to the Department of Public Safety concerning compliance with the codes of the City and State of Ohio that they administer. The application shall further be referred to the Police Department for investigation of the applicant’s character and qualifications. Each application shall contain the following information:
(a) A definition of service to be provided.
(b) The location, mailing address and all telephone numbers where the business is to be conducted.
(c) The name and residence address of each applicant (hereinafter all provisions which refer to the applicant which may be a corporation or partnership).
(1) If the applicant is a corporation, the names and residence addresses of each of the officers and directors of said corporation and of each stockholder owning more than ten percent (10%) of the stock of the corporation itself, if different from the address of the massage establishment.
(2) If the applicant is a partnership, the names and residence addresses of each of the partners including limited partners, and the address of the partnership itself, if different from the address of the massage establishment.
(d) The two previous addresses immediately prior to the present address of the applicant.
(e) Proof that the applicant is at least eighteen years of age.
(f) Individual or partnership applicant’s height, weight, color of eyes and hair and sex.
(g) Copy of identification such as a driver’s license and social security card.
(h) One portrait photograph of the applicant at least two inches and a complete set of applicant’s fingerprints which shall be taken by the Chief of Police or his agent. If the applicant is a corporation, one portrait photograph at least two inches by two inches of all officers and managing agents of said corporation and a complete set of the same officers’ and agents’ fingerprints which shall be taken by the Chief of Police or his agent. If the applicant is a partnership, one front-face portrait photograph at least two inches by two inches in size of each partner, including a limited partner in said partnership, and a complete set of each partner or limited partner’s fingerprints which shall be taken by the Chief of Police or his agents.
(i) Business, occupation or employment of the applicant for the three years immediately preceding the date of application.
(j) The massage or similar business license history of the applicant; whether such person, in previously operating in this or another city or state has had a business license revoked or suspended, the reason therefor, and the business activity or occupation subsequent to such action of suspension or revocation.
(k) All criminal convictions other than misdemeanor traffic violations, including the dates of convictions, nature of the crimes and place convicted.
(l) The name and address of each massagist who is or will be employed in said establishment.
(m) Applicant must furnish a diploma or certificate of graduation from a recognized school or other institution of learning wherein the method, profession and work of massage is taught, provided however, that if the applicant will not himself engage in the practice of massage as defined herein, he need not possess such diploma or certificate of graduation from a recognized school or other institution of learning wherein the method, profession and work of massage is taught.
(n) The name and address of any massage business or other establishment owned or operated by any person whose name is required to be given in subsection (c) hereof wherein the business or profession of massage is carried on.
(o) A description of any other business to be operated on the same premises or on adjoining premises owned or controlled by the applicant.
(p) Authorization for the City, its agents and employees to seek information and conduct an investigation into the truth of the statements set forth in the application and the qualifications of the applicant for the permit.
(q) Such other identification and information necessary to discover the truth of the matters hereinbefore specified as required to be set forth in the application.
(r) The names, current addresses and written statements of at least three bonafide permanent residents of the United States that the applicant is of good moral character. If the applicant is able, the statement must first be furnished from residents of the City, then the County, then the State of Ohio and lastly from the rest of the United States. These references must be persons other than relatives and business associates.
Upon completion of the above provided form and the furnishing of all foregoing information the Department of Public Safety shall accept the application for the necessary investigations. The holder of a massage establishment license shall notify the Department of each change in any of the data required to be furnished by this section within ten days after such change occurs. (Ord. 67-79. Passed 4-2-79.)