Every applicant for a license to maintain, operate or conduct a massage establishment shall file an application, under oath, with the City, upon a form provided by the Department of Public Safety, and shall pay a nonrefundable annual license fee as set forth in Section 185.04(c) of the Parma Codified Ordinances, per year or part thereof. The application, once accepted, shall be referred to such Department for investigation. Copies of the application shall, within five days, be referred to the Building Division, the Fire Division and the County Health Department. Such Divisions and Department shall, within thirty days, inspect the premises proposed to be operated as a massage establishment and make a written verification to the Department of Public Safety concerning compliance with the codes of the City and State that they administer. The application shall further be referred to the Police Department for investigation of the applicant's background, character and qualifications. Each application shall contain, at a minimum, the following:
(a) A definition of the service to be provided;
(b) The location, mailing address and each telephone number where the business is to be conducted;
(c) The name and residence address of each applicant (hereinafter all provisions which refer to an applicant may refer to a corporation or partnership) as follows:
(1) If the applicant is a corporation, the name and residence address of each officer and director of such corporation and of each stockholder owning more than ten percent of the stock of the corporation itself, if different from the address of the massage establishment; or
(2) If the applicant is a partnership, the name and residence address of each partner, including limited partners, and the address of the partnership itself if different from the address of the massage establishment;
(d) The two previous addresses immediately prior to the present address of the applicant;
(e) Proof that the applicant is at least eighteen years of age;
(f) The applicant's height, weight, color of eyes and hair, and sex;
(g) A copy of a form of identification, such as a driver's license or a social security card of the applicant;
(h) One portrait photograph of the applicant, at least two inches by two inches in size, and a complete set of the applicant's fingerprints, which shall be taken by the Chief of Police or his or her agent; if the applicant is a corporation, one portrait photograph, at least two inches by two inches in size, of each officer and managing agent of such corporation and a complete set of the same officer's and agent's fingerprints, which shall be taken by the Chief of Police or his or her agent; and if the applicant is a partnership, one front-face portrait photograph, at least two inches by two inches in size, of each partner, including a limited partner, in such partnership, and a complete set of each partner's or limited partner's fingerprints, which shall be taken by the Chief of Police or his or her agents;
(i) The business, occupation or employment of the applicant for the three years immediately preceding the date of application;
(j) The massage or similar business license history of the applicant; and a statement as to whether or not such person, in previously operating in this or another city or state, has had a business license revoked or suspended, the reason therefor and the business activity or occupation subsequent to such action of suspension or revocation;
(k) All criminal convictions other than misdemeanor traffic violations, including the date of conviction, the nature of the crime and the place convicted;
(l) The name and address of each massagist who is or will be employed in such establishment;
(m) A diploma or certificate of graduation from a recognized school or other institution of learning wherein the method, profession and work of massage is taught. However, if the applicant will not himself or herself engage in the practice of massage, he or she need not possess such a diploma or certificate of graduation.
(n) The name and address of any massage business or other establishment owned or operated by any person whose name is required to be given in subsection (c) hereof wherein the business or profession of massage is carried on;
(o) A description of any other business to be operated on the same premises or on adjoining premises owned or controlled by the applicant;
(p) Authorization for the City, its agents and employees to seek information and conduct an investigation into the truth of the statements set forth in the application and the qualifications of the applicant for the permit;
(q) Such other identification and information as required by the Director of Public Safety to be set forth in the application; and
(r) The names, current addresses and written statements of at least three bona fide permanent residents of the United States that the applicant is of good moral character. If the applicant is able, the statement must first be furnished by residents of the City, then the County, then the State and lastly from the rest of the United States. These references must be persons other than relatives and business associates.
Upon completion of the form and the furnishing of all requested information, the Department of Public Safety shall accept the application for the necessary investigations. The holder of a massage establishment license shall notify the Department of each change in any of the data required to be furnished by this section within ten days after such change occurs.
(Ord. 164-88. Passed 5-16-88; Ord. 262-08. Passed 10-6-08.)