The following definitions apply in this chapter:
"Advertisement" means any method used to solicit interest in massage therapy services.
"Athletic club" has the same meaning as in section 17.108.020.
"Certified massage therapy practitioner" means a person who is certified to provide massage therapy services pursuant to California Business and Professions Code section 4604 or 4604.2.
"City manager" means the city manager or the city manager's designee.
"Exterior door" means a door that fronts a public street, highway, walkway, alley, or parking area.
"Exterior window" means a window that fronts a public street, highway, walkway, alley, or parking area.
"Gross receipts" has the same meaning as in section 3.08.020.
"Home occupation" has the same meaning as in section 17.108.090.
"Massage therapy" means any treatment method of pressure or friction against, or massaging, stroking, kneading, rubbing, tapping, pounding, vibrating, or stimulating of, the external surfaces of the body.
"Massage therapy establishment" means a business that receives 10% or more of its annual gross receipts from massage therapy services, whether the services are provided at a fixed place of business or at a different site designated by the customer.
"Massage therapy practitioner" means a person who offers or provides massage therapy services.
"Massage therapy services" means massage therapy provided for compensation.
"Out-call massage therapy service" means massage therapy services provided at a site designated by the customer.
"Owner" means any sole proprietor, part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, tenant in partnership, joint tenant or tenant by the entirety, or holder of other ownership interest in a massage therapy establishment.
"Permitted residence" has the same meaning as in section 17.228.200.B.
"Recognized school of massage therapy" means a school or institution of learning that teaches the theory, ethics, practice, profession, and work of massage therapy, with a curriculum of not fewer than 100 hours of classroom instruction, which is an "approved school" as defined by California Business and Professions Code section 4601 or a comparable certifying agency in another state.
"Site" means the portion of a parcel or parcels of real property upon which massage therapy services are provided. (Ord. 2021-0016 § 26)