For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
HEALTH CLUB.
(1) Any establishment which offers service in any form of massage, baths, exercises, or similar services, in combination to club members, or to the public for a charge.
(2) The term HEALTH CLUB does not include:
(a) Hospitals, nursing homes, medical clinics, or the offices of quarters of a physician, a surgeon, or an osteopath;
(b) Exercise clubs exclusively for members or clientele of one sex alone, where the services, without massage in any form, are performed by a person of the same sex as the members or clientele; or
(c) Barbershops and beauty parlors.
MASSAGE PARLOR. The term is used synonomously with HEALTH CLUB, defined herein.
MASSEUR AND MASSEUSE. A person who practices any one or more of the arts of body massage, either by hand or mechanical apparatus, oil rubs, corrective gymnastics, mechanotherapy, including color therapy, dietetics, hot packs, cabinet, tub, shower, sitz, vapor, steam, or any other special type of bath.
(Ord. 76-1, passed 2-20-1976)