A. Permit--Fees.
1. Any person desiring to make application for a massage technician permit must truly and correctly complete a form provided by the city. Such completed application form shall be accepted only upon a showing that the fee in the amount established by the most current fee resolution as adopted by the City Council has been paid to the city director of finance as a fee to investigate and perform an examination relative to such applicant.
2. Permits and fees required by this section shall be in addition to any license, permit or fee required under any other section of this chapter or other chapter of this code. A permit to operate a massage establishment does not authorize the performing of massages.
B. Application--Contents. Any applicant for a permit pursuant to this chapter shall submit the following information:
1. 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;
2. The present address of the applicant;
3. The two previous addresses immediately prior to the present address of applicant;
4. Written statements signed under declaration of perjury by at least five bona fide residents of the state that the applicant is of good moral character; or the identification of such individuals together with their current residence addresses;
5. Written proof that the applicant is over the age of eighteen years of age;
6. The applicant's height, weight, color of eyes and hair, driver's license number, and Social Security number;
7. Two portrait photographs at least two inches by two inches;
8. The business, occupation, and employment of the applicant for the three years immediately preceding the date of the application and the address of each and every location where such business, occupation, and employment was engaged in or performed;
9. 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;
10. Whether the applicant has ever been convicted of any of the crimes set forth in Section 51032 of the Government Code and if so, the circumstances thereof and the sentence therefor;
11. A certificate under penalty of perjury from a medical doctor stating that the applicant has within thirty days immediately prior to the date of the application been examined and found to be free of any contagious or communicable disease; and
12. Such other identification and information necessary to discover the truth of the matters specified in this section as required to be set forth in the application.
C. The city may require the fingerprints and additional photographs of the applicant, and confirmation of the height and weight of the applicant.
D. Applicant must furnish a diploma or certificate of graduation from an approved school wherein the method, profession and work of massage technicians is taught. The term "approved school" means and includes any school or institution of learning duly licensed by the state which has for its purpose the teaching of the theory, the method, profession, or work of massage technicians and which school requires a resident course of study of not less than two hundred hours to be given in not less than three calendar months before the student is furnished with a diploma or certificate of graduation from such school or institution of learning showing the successful completion of such course of study or learning. Schools offering a correspondence course not requiring actual attendance in a class shall not be deemed a "recognized school." Massages for consideration of any kind whatsoever shall not be provided or performed at massage schools.
E. Falsification of any of the above information shall be deemed sufficient reason for denial of the application.
(Ord. 2009-01-1396 § 1, 2009; Ord. 81-6-871 § 1 (part))