A. Permit Required. It is unlawful for any person, association, firm, partnership, or corporation to operate or conduct a massage establishment or to permit a massage establishment to be operated or conducted, in or upon any premises within the city, or to render a massage or permit a massage to be rendered within the city at any location not licensed as a massage establishment, in accordance with the provisions set forth in this chapter.
B. Application--Fees.
1. Any applicant for a permit to operate a massage establishment shall make application to the chief of police upon a form provided by him. Such application shall be accepted only upon a showing that four hundred dollars, or such other sum as has been established by the city to cover its expenses under this chapter has been paid to the city director of finance as a fee to investigate such applicant and the proposed establishment. Where there is more than one applicant or owner of such applicant as defined in Section 5.16.010A an additional seventy-five dollars shall be paid for each additional applicant and/or owner.
2. Permits and fees required by this section shall be in addition to any license, permit or fee required under any other section or chapter of this code, including but not limited to the annual license tax and business license pursuant to Chapters 5.08 and 5.12; and a conditional use permit as required by Title 20.
C. Application--Contents. Any applicant for a permit pursuant to this chapter shall submit the following information:
1. The type of ownership of the business, i.e., whether individual, partnership, corporation or otherwise;
2. The name, style and designation, which shall not reasonably suggest that any services are available except those specified in Section 5.16.010B, under which the business is to be conducted, together with its address or proposed address;
3. A complete list of the names and residence addresses of all massage technicians, employees and attendants in the business; the name and residence address of the operator, manager or other person principally in charge of the operation of the business; and the names and residence addresses of all principals of the business;
4. The full name of the applicant, including aliases, nicknames, and any other names used. In the case of a female applicant, her full name, including her maiden name and each of her married names;
5. The present address of the applicant;
6. The two previous addresses immediately prior to the present address of applicant;
7. The names and present residence address of at least five bona fide residents of the state who will attest that the applicant is of good moral character;
8. Written proof that the applicant is over the age of eighteen years;
9. The applicant's height, weight, color of eyes and hair, driver's license number, and Social Security number;
10. Two portrait photographs at least two inches by two inches;
11. The business, occupation, or employment of the applicant for the three years immediately preceding the date of the application;
12. The massage or similar business license history of the applicant, whether such person, in previously operating in this or another city or state under license, has had such license revoked or suspended and the reason therefor; and the business activity or occupation subsequent to such action of suspension or revocation;
13. Whether the applicant has ever been convicted of any crime specified in Section 51032 of the Government Code and, if so, the circumstances thereof and the sentence therefor; and
14. Such other identification and information necessary to discover the truth of the matters specified in this section as required to be set forth in application.
D. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to deny to the police department of the city the right to take the fingerprints and additional photographs of the applicant, nor shall anything contained in this section be construed to deny the right of said department to confirm the height and weight of the applicant.
E. Falsification of any of the above information shall be deemed sufficient reason for denial of the application.
(Ord. 81-6-872 § 1 (part))