(A) Permit required. No individual shall engage in the business of acting or act as a massage technician unless such individual holds a valid massage technician permit issued by the City Recorder. This section shall not apply to the classes of individuals exempted in § 111.02.
(B) Permit fee. Applicants for a permit hereunder shall pay a nonrefundable permit application fee of $100, plus the actual cost of any examination conducted by the Health Department.
(C) Application: contents. Any individual desiring to obtain a massage technician permit shall make application under penalty of perjury to the City Recorder, which application shall be submitted in duplicate and shall contain the following information:
(1) The full name, date of birth, current residence and business address, and telephone numbers;
(2) West Virginia driver’s license number and Social Security number, if any;
(3) Any other names or aliases, including nicknames, used within five years immediately prior to the date of filing the application;
(4) Each residence and business address for the five years immediately prior to the date of filing the application, and the inclusive dates of each such address;
(5) Written proof that the applicant is at least 18 years of age;
(6) Height, weight, sex, color of eyes and hair, photograph and finger and thumb prints. Photographs shall be two inches by two inches, showing the head and shoulders in a clear manner and shall have been taken within 60 days prior to the filing of the application;
(7) The massage or similar business license or permit history of the applicant; whether such applicant, in previously operating in this or any other city or state, has had a business license or permit revoked or suspended, or has had any professional or vocational license or permit revoked or suspended, and the reason therefor;
(8) The business, occupation and employment history of the applicant for the five years immediately preceding the date of the application and the address of each and every location where such business, occupation and employment was engaged in or performed;
(9) Any conviction, forfeiture of bond or pleas of nolo contendere upon any criminal violation or city ordinance violation (except minor traffic violations), within a five-year period, and, if so, the place and court in which such conviction, plea or forfeiture was heard, the specific charge and the sentence imposed as a result thereof;
(10) The names, current addresses and written statements of at least two reliable property owners of Kanawha County who will certify as to such individual’s good character or business responsibility; or, in lieu of such references, such other available evidence as to the good character or business responsibility of such individual as will enable the Chief of Police to properly evaluate such character or business responsibility;
(11) A certificate from a medical doctor, licensed to practice in the State of West Virginia, issued within 30 days immediately prior to the filing of the application, stating that the applicant has been examined and found to be free of any contagious or communicable disease as of the date of such examination. Such contagious or communicable diseases shall include, but not be limited to, all venereal diseases, tuberculosis and other illnesses regulated and serviced by the Kanawha- Charleston Health Department;
(12) The business address and all telephone numbers of any massage establishment where the massage is to be practiced, and if other than a massage establishment, the place or places where the applicant will engage in the practice of massage;
(13) Such other identification and information necessary to discover the truth of the matters hereinbefore specified as required to be set forth in the application; and
(14) Authorization for the county, its agents and employees, to seek information and conduct an investigation into the truth of the statements set forth in the application and qualifications of the applicant for the permit.
(Prior Code, § 1123.08) (Ord. 84-7, passed 9-4-1984)