All massage establishments shall comply with the following health, safety, and physical hygiene requirements:
(A) Separate closed cabinets shall be provided for the storage of clean and soiled linen, and shall be plainly marked “clean linen” and “soiled linen.”
(B) Clean and sanitary towels, sheets, and linens shall be provided in sufficient quantity. Towels, sheets and linens shall not be used by more than one person. Reuse of such towels, sheets or linens is prohibited unless the same has first been laundered.
(C) All walls, ceilings, floors, pools, showers, bathtubs, steam rooms, and all physical facilities including appliances and apparatuses of the establishment must be in good repair and maintained in a clean and sanitary condition. Wet and dry heat rooms, steam or vapor rooms, or steam vapor cabinets, shower compartments, and toilet rooms shall be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected each day the massage establishment is in operation. Bathtubs shall be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected after each use.
(D) Disinfecting agents and sterilizing equipment shall be provided for any instruments used in administering any massage and shall be disinfected and sterilized after each use.
(E) Pads used on massage tables shall be covered with durable, washable plastic or other acceptable waterproof material.
(F) A clean sheet or other effective sanitary covering shall be placed over any table, floor or other area upon which a patron will lie in the course of receiving a massage. Heavy white paper may be substituted for sheets, provided that such paper is used once for each person and then discarded into a sanitary receptacle. The sheet or other covering shall be deposited in the “soiled linen” cabinet at the conclusion of any massage service.
(G) All employees and massage practitioners, including those who administer outcall massages and individuals who are not employed by but are retained to administer massage services for any massage establishment, shall be dressed appropriately in clean, opaque clothing which do not expose specified anatomical areas, as defined in this chapter, when administering massage services. DRESSED APPROPRIATELY shall further mean clothing which, at a minimum, is not:
(1) Attire that is transparent, see-through, or substantially exposes the certificate holder's undergarments.
(2) Swim attire, if not providing a water-based massage.
(3) Exposing the certificate holder's breasts, buttocks, or genitals.
(4) A violation of § 314 of the Penal Code.
(5) Deemed by the CAMTC to constitute unprofessional attire.
(H) There shall be no nudity by employees of the massage establishment, and employees shall not reveal specified anatomical areas, as defined in this chapter, while customers or patrons are present. All patrons shall be appropriately draped with a clean, white, opaque towel sufficient to cover specified anatomical areas while receiving massage services.
(I) All liquids, creams, or other preparations used on or made available to patrons shall be kept in clean and closed containers. Powders may be kept in clean shakers. All bottles and containers shall be distinctly and correctly labeled to disclose their contents. When only a portion of a liquid, cream, or other preparation is to be used on or made available to a patron, it shall be removed from the container in such a way as not to contaminate the remaining portion.
(`83 Code, § 5.24.080) (Ord. 97-17 § 2, 1997; 2011-05 § 8, 2011; Ord. 2016-03 § 6, 2016)