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(1) Licenses. 868 No person shall engage in the business of, or be employed as, a masseur or masseuse unless he has obtained an operator's license from the Department of Licenses and Inspections.
(2) Information. 869 Each applicant for an operator's license shall set forth on forms provided by the Department:
(a) the name and address of the applicant and former addresses for a period of three years;
(b) a statement of past employers for three years if the applicant desires an operator's license;
(c) such other information that the Department may require.
(3) Fee. 870 The applicant for an operator's license shall pay an annual license fee of forty dollars ($40).
(a) in the office of a licensed physician, osteopath, chiropractor, or a physical therapist;
(b) in a regularly established medical center, hospital, or sanitarium;
(c) in a residence of a person under doctor's care by the direction of the doctor;
(d) upon the order of a licensed physician, osteopath, chiropractor, or physical therapist.
Notes
867 | Amended, 1963 Ordinances, p. 955; amended by deleting former subsections (6) and (7), 1990 Ordinances p. 715. |
868 | Amended, Bill No. 090777-A (approved February 17, 2010). |
869 | Amended, Bill No. 090777-A (approved February 17, 2010). |
870 | Amended, 1973 Ordinances, p. 902; amended, 1992 Ordinances, p. 550; amended, Bill No. 090777-A (approved February 17, 2010). |
871 | Renumbered and former subsection (4) deleted, Bill No. 080433 (approved November 19, 2008). |
(1) Definitions.
(a) Masseur. A licensed male or female person engaged in the business of, or employed as one massaging, manipulating, stimulating, exercising or performing similar work upon the human body with or without mechanical or electrical apparatus or appliances or medicinal substances.
(b) Master. A masseur who has successfully completed an examination administered by the Department of Health and has fulfilled requirements of an apprentice.
(c) Apprentice. A registered person serving under the direct supervision of a licensed master masseur.
(2) Requirements for License.
(a) No person shall engage in the business of, or be employed as a masseur master or apprentice unless he files a written application for registration with and on a form prescribed by the Department of Licenses and Inspections accompanied by a health certificate issued by a registered physician of Pennsylvania together with a registration fee of forty dollars ($40) and obtains a license from the Department of Licenses and Inspections. 873
(b) No person may be licensed as a master or apprentice masseur unless he has complied with the examination, educational and practical requirements as determined by the Department of Health.
(c) Any licensed master masseur may instruct apprentices, provided that there shall be not more than one apprentice for every licensed master operator. Apprentices shall register with and supply to the Department of Licenses and Inspections the name and address of their master masseur and information required in order to determine their fitness and qualification as an apprentice. This shall become effective thirty (30) days after the results of the administration of the first examination for masters.
(d) One (1) year from the effective date of this ordinance, any licensed masseur may file for the first examination to be given by the Department of Health in order to qualify as a master masseur in lieu of an apprenticeship and other examinations may be given from time to time to masseurs who fail to so qualify.
(e) The entire license fee shall be paid by the applicant for the calendar year regardless of the date of issuance. The license may be renewed annually and shall be accompanied by the license fee and a certification from a registered licensed physician of Pennsylvania stating that the applicant is free from all contagious and infectious diseases.
(3) General Provisions.
(a) No licensed masseur, master or apprentice shall operate or massage persons while suffering from a contagious or infectious disease, neither shall he serve any person afflicted with such diseases.
(b) All licensees shall conspicuously display their certificate of registration or license.
(c) At least one (1) licensed master shall be in attendance at all times during the operation of a licensed establishment. This shall become effective thirty (30) days after the results of the administration of the first examination of masters.
Notes
872 | Added, 1967 Ordinances, p. 644; amended by deleting former subsection (4), 1990 Ordinances, p. 715. |
873 | Amended, 1992 Ordinances, p. 550. |
(1) Definitions. In this Section the following definitions shall apply:
(2) Prohibited Conduct. No person shall own, lease to another or rent from another or otherwise possess or operate any premises for an automobile wrecking yard or junk yard and building unless the premises are either:
(a) fenced with durable material around the perimeter of those premises to the extent necessary to obscure from the view of any person using an abutting street the activity conducted on and any material upon those premises; or
(b) if fencing is impractical in the opinion of the Department of Licenses and Inspections trees and shrubs may be planted in a terrace-type manner if the Department finds that the premises will be obscured from view by any persons using an abutting street.
(3) Permits. No fence shall be erected, maintained, altered or restored unless application for approval is made to the Department of Licenses and Inspections on forms supplied by the Department. Upon approval by the Department and the payment of a permit fee of ten dollars ($10), a permit will be issued. No approval shall be given to any fence which is not a masonry or aluminum fence.
(4) Penalties. Any person violating this Section shall, upon conviction, be subject to a fine of not more than three hundred dollars ($300).
(5) Repeat Offenders. Any person who commits, on more than one occasion, a violation of this Section shall be guilty of a separate offense of Repeat Violation, and for each such Repeat Violation, shall be subject to a fine of not more than three hundred dollars ($300), or imprisonment for not more than ninety (90) days, or both. A person shall be guilty of a Repeat Violation regardless whether the second or subsequent violation occurs before or after a judicial finding of a first or previous violation. Each violation, after the first, shall constitute a separate Repeat Violation offense.
Notes
874 | Added, 1969 Ordinances, p. 1479; amended, Bill No. 758 (approved July 24, 1995), 1995 Ordinances, p. 1081. |
875 | Referenced material now appears in Title 4, Subcode F, Chapter 25. |
876 | Referenced material now appears in Title 4, Subcode F, Chapter 25. |
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