(A) Every portion of the 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 all prospective customers.
(C) All employees, including masseurs and masseuses, shall be clean and wear clean, nontransparent outer garments, covering the sexual and genital areas. A separate dressing room for each sex must be available on the premises with individual lockers for each employee.
(D) All 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 areas of patrons must be covered by towels, cloths or undergarments when in the presence of an employee, masseur or masseuse.
(F) It shall be unlawful for any person in a massage establishment knowingly 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 person.
(G) No masseur or masseuse, employee or operator shall perform, offer or agree to perform any act which would require the touching of a 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 rooms or 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 massages shall be kept in clean, closed containers or cabinets.
(J) Eating in the massage work areas shall not be permitted. Animals, except for seeing-eye dogs, shall not be permitted in the massage work areas.
(K) No masseur or masseuse shall administer a massage on a patron’s skin inflamation or skin eruption, unless a physician duly licensed by the State of Illinois certifies in writing that such person may be safely massaged on that area.
(L) Each masseur and masseuse shall wash his or her hands in hot running water, using a proper soap or disinfectant before administering a massage to each patron.
(Ord. 77-36, passed 9-12-77) Penalty, see § 114.99