(A) Every portion of the therapeutic massage establishment, including appliances and apparatus, shall be kept clean and operated in a sanitary condition;
(B) Price rates for all services shall be prominently posted in the reception area in a location available to call prospective customers;
(C) All employees, including massage therapists, shall be clean and wear clean, nontransparent outer garments, covering the sexual and genital areas, whose use is restricted to the therapeutic massage establishment. A separate dressing room for each sex must be available on the premises with individual lockers for each employee. Doors to such dressing rooms shall open inward and shall be self-closing;
(D) All therapeutic massage establishments shall be provided with clean, laundered sheets and towels in sufficient quantity and shall be laundered after each use thereof and stored in a sanitary manner;
(E) The sexual or genital area of patrons must be covered by towels, cloths or undergarments when in the presence of an employee or massage therapist;
(F) It shall be unlawful for any person, knowingly, in a therapeutic massage establishment, to place his or her hand upon, to touch with any part of his or her body, to fondle in any manner, or to massage, a sexual or genital area of any other persons.
(G) No massage therapist, employee or operator shall perform, offer or agree to perform, any act which would require the touching of the patron's genital area.
(H) All walls, ceilings, floors, pools, showers, bathtubs, steam rooms and all other physical facilities shall be in good repair and maintained in a clean and sanitary condition. Wet and dry heat rooms, steam or vapor cabinets, shower compartments and toilet rooms shall be thoroughly cleaned each day the business is in operation. Bathtubs and showers shall be thoroughly cleaned after each use. When carpeting is used on the floors, it shall be kept dry.
(I) Oils, creams, lotions or other preparations used in administering therapeutic massages shall be kept in clean, closed containers or cabinets.
(J) Eating in the therapeutic massage work areas shall not be permitted. Animals, except for seeing eye dogs, shall not be permitted in the therapeutic massage work area.
(K) No massage therapist shall administer a therapeutic massage to a patron exhibiting any skin fungus, skin infection, skin inflammation or skin eruption, unless a physician duly licensed by the state certifies in writing that such person may be safely massaged prescribing the conditions thereof.
(L) Each massage therapist shall wash his or her hands in hot running water, using a proper soap or disinfectant before administering a therapeutic massage to each patron.
(Ord. 811, passed 12-17-01) Penalty, see § 114.99