As used in this chapter, "massage establishment" means any building, room, or place other than a regularly licensed hospital or dispensary, where non-medical and non-surgical manipulative exercises are practiced upon the human body, for other than cosmetic or beautifying purposes, with or without the use of mechanical or bathing devices, by anyone who is not a physician or surgeon or of a similarly registered status. Massage establishments, as defined herein, shall not include properly licensed hospitals, medical clinics, nursing homes, beauty salons, barber shops, tanning and/or nail salons, athletic clubs, or other licensed facilities where massages are administered as an incidental or accessory use to the main use of the premises, provided that the facility maintains a separate room equipped with appliances and apparatus for massages, and, provided further, that the massages are administered only by practitioners who have been issued a license pursuant to Section 838.07, as amended. Massage establishments, as defined herein, shall also not include offices where occasional chair massages are administered as an incidental or accessory use to the main use of the premises as long as the massages are administered by practitioners who have been issued a license pursuant to Section 838.07, as amended.
(1974 Code § 7.351; Ord. 798. Passed 11-17-04.)