(a) No person who owns, operates, manages or supervises the operation of a massage establishment shall do any of the following:
(1) Allow any employee or any massage therapist to appear in any state of undress, to wear transparent clothing, or clothing that otherwise reveals a specified anatomical area;
(2) Allow any employee or massage therapist to provide a massage treatment to a client who is in a state of nudity, a state of semi-nudity, or who reveals a specified anatomical area;
(b) No person shall do any of the following:
(1) Advertise or offer massage treatments or a related service unless they are exempt or are licensed as massage therapists to provide such massage treatments;
(2) Appear in a massage establishment in any state of undress, transparent clothing, or clothing that otherwise reveals a specified anatomical area;
(3) Provide a massage treatment to a client who is in a state of nudity, a state of semi-nudity, or who reveals a specified anatomical area.
(c) No person shall place, publish, distribute, or cause to be placed, published, or distributed any advertising material using sexual or provocative words or images.
(d) No person shall advertise massage treatment services with the suggestion or promise of a sexual service or activity.
(e) Nothing shall prohibit a massage therapist from providing a massage treatment to a client who is covered only by draping, or prohibiting a massage therapist from removing such draping as necessary upon the client's explicit consent.
(f) Transfer of Massage Establishment or Massage Services Registration Certificate. No registration certificate issued pursuant to this chapter shall be transferred or assigned in any manner, whether by authorization or law or otherwise, from any location to another location or from person to person, except that a person possessing a registration certificate, issued by the City, may move from one employer to another without filing a new application or paying a new fee, so long as the registration certificate holder notifies the Director, in writing, or the change in their employment within five business days of such change. Failure to make this notification within five business days shall be grounds for suspension or revocation of a registration certificate.
(Ord. 6868. Passed 9-15-20.)