No permit to conduct a massage establishment shall be issued unless an inspection is made under the provisions of Section 5.16.120C and it is determined that the establishment complies with each of the following minimum requirements; and a permit previously issued shall be revoked if the following facilities and operating requirements are not met:
A. All employees, massage technicians, and attendants shall wear clean outer garments whose use is restricted to the massage establishment. The garments shall provide a complete covering by fully opaque material of the genitals, genital area, buttocks and female breasts of such employees, massage technicians, and attendants.
B. No massage establishment licensed under the provisions of this chapter shall place, publish, distribute, disseminate or broadcast, or cause to be placed, published, distributed, disseminated or broadcasted, any advertising matter that would reasonably suggest to prospective patrons that any service is available other than those services described in subsection B of Section 5.16.010, nor shall any massage establishment indicate in the text of any advertising that any service is available other than those services described in subsection B. All advertisements placed, published, distributed, disseminated or broadcasted shall contain the establishment's business permit number.
C. A massage business permittee shall have the premises supervised at all times when open for business by the operator or manager. The violation upon the premises of any massage establishment of any provision of this chapter by any agent, employee or independent contractor of the holder of a massage business permit shall constitute a violation by the license holder.
D. Each massage establishment shall have at least one person who has a valid massage technician's permit on the premises at all times while the establishment is open for business.
E. The operator of a massage establishment shall maintain a register of all persons employed as massage technicians and their permit numbers. Such register shall be made available for inspection by representatives of the city at any time during the establishment's business hours.
F. A recognizable and readable sign shall be posted at the main entrance identifying the establishment as a massage establishment; provided, that all such signs shall comply with the sign requirements of the city, and such sign shall not reasonably suggest that services other than those identified in Section 5.16.010B are available.
G. Minimum lighting shall be provided in accordance with the Uniform Building Code, and at least one artificial light of not less than forty watts shall be provided in each enclosed room or booth where massage services are being performed on a patron.
H. Minimum ventilation shall be provided in accordance with the Uniform Building Code.
I. Adequate equipment for disinfecting and sterilizing instruments used in performing the acts of massage shall be provided.
J. Hot and cold running water shall be provided at all times.
K. Closed cabinets shall be provided, which cabinets shall be utilized for the storage of clean linen.
L. In any establishment in which massage services are rendered only to members of the same sex at any one time, such persons of the same sex may be placed in a single, separate room, or the operators of the massage establishment may elect to place such persons of the same sex in separate enclosed rooms or booths having adequate ventilation to an area outside said room or booth, while massage services are being performed.
M. Adequate bathing, dressing, locker, and toilet facilities shall be provided for patrons. A minimum of one tub or shower, one dressing room containing a separate locker for each patron to be served, which locker shall be capable of being locked, as well as a minimum of one toilet and one washbasin, shall be provided by every massage establishment; provided, however, that if male and female patrons are to be served simultaneously at the establishment, separate bathing, a separate massage room or rooms, separate dressing and separate toilet facilities shall be provided for male and female patrons.
N. All walls, ceilings, floors, pools, showers, bathtubs, steam rooms, and all other physical facilities for the establishment must be in good repair and maintained in a clean and sanitary condition. Wet and dry heat rooms, steam or vapor rooms or cabinets, shower compartments, and toilet rooms shall be thoroughly cleaned each day the business is in operation. Bathtubs shall be thoroughly cleaned after each use.
O. Clean and sanitary towels and linens shall be provided for each patron of the establishment or each patron receiving massage services. No common use of towels or linens shall be permitted.
P. A minimum of one separate washbasin shall be provided in each massage establishment for the use of employees of any such establishment, which basin shall provide soap or detergent and hot and cold running water at all times and shall be located within or as close as practicable to the area devoted to the performing of massage services. In addition, there shall be provided at each washbasin sanitary towels placed in permanently installed dispensers.
Q. Proof of compliance with all applicable provisions of the Signal Hill Municipal Code shall be provided.
(Ord. 81-6-872 § 1 (part))