(a) An application for a masseur or masseuse permit shall contain the following information:
(1) The applicant's name and residence address;
(2) The applicant's social security number and driver's license number, if any;
(3) The applicant's weight, height and color of hair and eyes;
(4) Written evidence that the applicant is at least eighteen years of age;
(5) Any business, occupation or employment of the applicant for the three years preceding the date of application; and
(6) A statement as to whether or not the applicant has been convicted of, pleaded nolo contendere to, or suffered a forfeiture on a bond involving a charge of committing, any crime, except minor traffic violations, within the last five years. If the statement is in the affirmative, a statement shall be made, giving the place and the court in which such conviction, plea or forfeiture was had, the specific charge under which the conviction, plea or forfeiture was obtained and the sentence imposed as a result thereof.
(b) The Chief of Police or his or her delegate may take fingerprints and a photograph of the applicant and may confirm the information submitted.
(c) Any person who desires to perform the service of masseur or masseuse at a massage establishment shall first undergo a physical examination for contagious and communicable diseases, which examination shall include recognized blood tests for syphillis and AIDS, a culture for gonorrhea, a test or tests which will demonstrate freedom from tuberculosis, which test or tests shall be carried out and interpreted by a licensed physician acceptable to the Health Officer, and such other laboratory tests, carried out in a laboratory acceptable to the Health Officer, as may be necessitated by such examination. Such person shall furnish the Health Officer with a certificate based upon such physical examination, issued within thirty days of such examination, signed by a physician duly licensed by the State and stating that the person examined is either free from any contagious or communicable disease or is incapable of communicating any such disease to others. Such person shall undergo the physical examination referred to in this subsection and submit to the Health Officer the certificate required herein prior to commencement of his or her employment and at least once every six months thereafter.
(Ord. 1987-33. Passed 7-10-87.)