To protect the general health, safety, welfare and morals, the following licensing provisions specified in this chapter are ordained for the operation or carrying on of the businesses, trade or professions commonly known as massage parlors, health salons, physical culture studios, clubs or establishments or similar establishments wherein physical culture, massage, hydrotherapy or other physical treatment of the human body is carried on or practiced and for the regulation of any other business which carries on the acts or practices incidental to the principal business. The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to a regularly established and licensed hospital, sanitarium, nursing home or medical clinic, nor to the office or clinic operated by a duly-qualified and licensed medical practitioner or chiropractor in connection with his or her practice of medicine or chiropractic if the office or clinic is regularly used by the medical practitioners or chiropractor as his or her principal location for his or her practice of medicine or chiropractic.
(1984 Code, § 2-7-62) (Ord. passed 5-7-1973)