(a) No massage establishment shall be issued a license, nor be operated, established or maintained in the City, unless an inspection by the Stark County Health Department, Building Inspector and Fire Inspector, or their representatives, reveals that the establishment complies with each of the following minimum requirements:
(1) Construction of rooms used for toilets, tubs, steam baths and showers shall be made waterproof with approved waterproof materials and shall be installed in accordance with applicable building code.
(2) All massage tables, bathtubs, shower stalls and steam or bath areas and floors shall have surfaces which may be readily disinfected;
(3) Adequate bathing, dressing and locker facilities shall be provided for the patrons to be served at any given time. In the event male and female patrons are to be served simultaneously, separate bathing, dressing, locker and massage room facilities shall be provided;
(4) The premises shall have adequate equipment for disinfection and sterilizing nondisposable instruments and materials used in administering massages. Such nondisposable instruments and materials shall be disinfected after use on each patron;
(5) Closed cabinets shall be provided and used for the storage of linen, towels and other materials used in connection with administering massages. All soiled linens, towels and other materials shall be kept in properly covered containers or cabinets, which containers or cabinets shall be kept separate from the clean storage area;
(6) Toilet facilities shall be provided in convenient locations. When employees and patrons of different sexes are on the premises at the same time, separate toilet facilities shall be provided for each sex. A single water closet per sex shall be provided for each twenty or more employees or patrons of that sex on the premises at any one time. Urinals may be substituted for water closets after one closet has been provided. Toilets shall be designated as to the sex accommodated therein;
(7) Lavatories or wash basins provided with both hot and cold running water shall be installed in either the toilet room or a vestibule immediately adjacent thereto. Lavatories or wash basins shall be provided with soap and a dispenser and with single use sanitary towels;
(8) The premises shall be equipped with a service sink for custodial services; and
(9) The premises shall meet the requirements of the Building Code, Fire Prevention Code and the following health codes:
A. No person who is affected with any disease in a communicable form or is a carrier of such disease shall work in any massage parlor and no owner or operator of such establishment shall employ any person suspected of being infected with any disease in a communicable form or of being a carrier of such disease. If the owner or operator suspects that any employee has contracted any disease in a communicable form or has become a carrier of such disease, he shall notify the Health Commissioner immediately.
B. The Health Commissioner or a physician authorized by him may examine and take a careful morbidity history of every person connected with a massage parlor, or about to be employed whose work bring him in contact with a patron. If such examination or history suggests that such person may be a carrier of or infected with the organisms of tuberculosis, typhoid or paratyphoid fever or any other communicable diseases likely to be transmitted by contact, he shall secure appropriate specimens of body discharges and cause them to be examined in a laboratory approved by him or by the State health authorities for such examinations, and if the results justify such person shall be barred from such employment. Such person shall furnish such information, submit to such physical examination and submit such laboratory specimens as the Health Commissioner may require for the purpose of determining freedom of infection.
C. No place shall be used, maintained or permitted to be used or maintained as a place where massaging is done for pay unless all of the following requirements are complied with:
1. Every such place shall be supplied with running hot and cold water.
2. No vessel, utensil, instrument, towel, cloth or other article coming in contact with the skin of any person in the process of massaging shall be used until after it has been sterilized, and no sponge, powder puff or other articles that are not so sterilized shall be used in any such process. No alum or other material for stopping the flow of blood shall be used, except in powdered or liquid form in any such process.
3. No room where massaging is done shall be used for sleeping purposes, and no furniture adapted for sleeping room purposes shall be in any such room.
4. Every such place and all furniture, fixtures and equipment in such place shall be maintained in a clean condition at all times.
D. The Stark County Health Department, the applicable building inspector and the Fire Inspector shall certify that the proposed massage establishment complies with all the requirements of this section and shall send such certification to the City Planning Department. (Ord. 14-19. Passed 5-5-14.)