The following acts are prohibited:
A. It is unlawful for any person to practice or engage in or attempt to practice or engage in massage, without first being licensed by the state of Utah as a massage technician or massage apprentice.
B. It is unlawful for any massage establishment to employ or contract with, for the purpose of performing massage, any individual who is not licensed by the state of Utah as a massage technician or massage apprentice.
C. It is unlawful to serve, store, allow to be consumed any alcoholic beverage on the licensed premises of a massage establishment.
D. It is unlawful for a massage technician, massage therapist, massage apprentice, employee, or independent contractor of a massage establishment to touch or offer to touch or massage or apply any instrument or device in the course of practicing or engaging in massage therapy to the genitalia or anus of customers.
E. It is unlawful for a massage technician, massage therapist, massage apprentice, employees, independent contractor, or customer of the massage establishment to display to any other person any specified anatomical area or to engage in any specified sexual activity, as defined in Chapter 13-4 of this Title, while on the premises of the massage establishment.
F. It is unlawful for a premises licensed as a massage establishment to be used for the purpose of housing, sheltering or harboring, or cause to permit the same to be used as living or sleeping quarters by employees or other persons.
G. With the exception of bathrooms, dressing rooms, or any other room used for dressing purposes, no owner, operator, responsible managing employee, manager or licensee in charge of or in control of any massage establishment shall permit any person in any area within the massage establishment which is used in common by the patrons, or which can be viewed by patrons from such an area, unless the person’s anatomical areas specified in subsection D of this section are fully covered. Further, no owner, operator, responsible managing employee, manager, or licensee in charge of or in control of a massage establishment shall permit any person to be in any room with another person unless all the person’s anatomical areas specified in Subsection D are completely covered.
H. No owner, operator, responsible managing employee, manager or licensee in charge of or in control of a massage establishment shall permit any masseur or employee to be on the premises of a massage establishment during its ours of operation while performing, or available to perform, any task or service associated with the operation of a massage business, unless the masseur or employee is fully covered from the center of the kneecap to the base of the neck, excepting the hands and arms. Such covering must be of opaque material and maintained in a clean and sanitary condition. (Ord. 2021-13, 5-4-2021)