As used in this chapter:
(a) "Applicant" means any person applying for a permit under this chapter, including all partners, including limited partners, of a partnership applicant, any officer or director of a corporate applicant, and any stockholder holding more than two percent of the stock of a corporate applicant.
(b) "Employee" means all persons, other than 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.
(c) "Health Officer" means the designee of the County Board of Health.
(d) "Massage" means any method of pressure on, 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, powders, creams, lotions, ointments or other similar preparations commonly used in the practice of massage.
(e) "Massage establishment" means any establishment having a fixed place of business where any person engages in or carries on, or permits to be engaged in or carried on, any of the activities mentioned in subsection (d) hereof.
(f) "Masseur" and "masseuse" mean any individual who, for any consideration whatsoever, engages in the practice of massage.
(g) "Permittee" means the operator of a massage establishment.
(h) "Sexual or genital area" means and includes the genitals, pubic area, anus or perineum of any person, or the vulva or breasts of a female.
(Ord. 1987-33. Passed 7-10-87.)