(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 or provided in brochures in a location available to all prospective customers.
(C) All employees, including certified massage therapists, shall be clean and fully covered in clean clothing from a point not to exceed four inches above the center of the kneecap to the base of the neck by opaque material, excluding the arms and hands.
(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 area of patrons must be covered by sheets, cloths, or undergarments when in the presence of an employee or certified massage therapist or massage therapist in training.
(F) It shall be unlawful for any person, knowingly, in a massage establishment, to place his or her hand upon, to touch with any part of his body, to fondle in any manner, to massage a sexual area of any other person, or to solicit or request any such act.
(G) No certified massage therapist, massage therapist in training, massage establishment license holder, or employee or independent contractor of a massage establishment license holder shall perform, offer, or agree to perform any act, which would require the touching of a patron's sexual 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 after 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 and shall be dispensed in unit doses so that said bulk containers are not contaminated between patrons.
(J) Eating and/or drinking 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 certified massage therapist or massage therapist in training shall administer a massage to a patron exhibiting any skin fungus, skin infection, skin inflammation, or skin eruption unless a physician duly licensed by the state certifies in writing that such person may be safely massaged, prescribing the conditions thereof.
(L) Each certified massage therapist shall wash his or her hands in hot running water, using a proper soap disinfectant before administering a massage to each patron.
(M) Massage may be practiced only for the purposes of physical fitness, relaxation, or medical therapy. The practice of massage for any other purpose is prohibited.
(N) The hours of operation for massage establishments shall be limited to between 8:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m.
(O) The doors to the individual massage rooms shall not be equipped with any locking device and shall not be blocked or obstructed from either side.
(Ord. 97-01, passed 10-3-01) Penalty, see § 128.99