A. The business license official shall refer applications for independent massage therapy licenses or massage establishment licenses to the Mesquite Police Department for investigation. Upon completion of the investigation, the business license official shall approve or deny the application.
B. The business license official may deny, or suspend an independent massage therapy license or a massage establishment license for good cause, which includes, but is not limited to:
1. The application is incomplete or contains false, misleading or fraudulent statements with respect to any information that is required in the application;
2. The applicant, prospective licensee or any of its principals fails to satisfy any qualification or requirement that is imposed by this Code, or other local, State or Federal law or regulation that pertains to the particular license or approval for suitability which is sought;
3. The applicant, prospective licensee or any of its principals is residing in the United States illegally;
4. The applicant, prospective licensee or any of its principals is engaged, or has commenced, instituted, advertised, aided, carried on, continued or engaged, in a business, trade or profession without having obtained a valid license, or has solicited, encouraged, caused or procured another to do so;
5. The applicant, prospective licensee or any of its principals has been subject, in any jurisdiction, to disciplinary action of any kind with respect to a license, an approval for suitability, a permit or a work card to the extent that such disciplinary action reflects upon the qualification, acceptability or fitness of the applicant, prospective licensee or any of its principals;
6. The applicant, prospective licensee or any of its principals has been convicted of an act that constitutes a crime which involves moral turpitude or involves any local, State or Federal law or regulation which relates to the same or a similar business, or has been convicted of having solicited, encouraged, caused or procured another to commit such a violation;
7. The applicant, prospective licensee or any of its principals has been convicted of having perpetrated, or solicited, encouraged, caused or procured another to perpetrate, deceptive practices upon the public;
8. The applicant, prospective licensee or any of its principals suffers from a legal disability under the laws of the State;
9. The premises on which the business is proposed to be conducted do not satisfy local, State or Federal laws or regulations which pertain to the activity that is proposed to be engaged in;
10. The proposed business activity constitutes, promotes, fosters, aids or otherwise enables a private nuisance, public nuisance or chronic nuisance;
11. The licensee, any of its principals, their employees or those acting on their behalf failed to cooperate with the business license official's efforts to enforce the provisions of this Code;
12. Two (2) convictions of any person for solicitation of prostitution on the massage establishment premises within the preceding three (3) year period;
13. The applicant or licensee fails to possess or maintain a valid unexpired massage therapist license issued by the Nevada Board of Massage Therapists; or
14. The applicant or licensee has been convicted of a charge of solicitation of prostitution during the three (3) year period immediately preceding the action taken by the City of Mesquite. (Ord. 477, 12-10-2013, eff. 12-31-2013)