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LICENSING REGULATIONS
The following licensing provisions hereafter specified are ordained for the privilege of carrying on the business, trade or profession of masseur or masseuse and for the operation or carrying on of the business, trades 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. The provisions of this subchapter 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; provided, however, the office or clinic is regularly used by the medical practitioner or chiropractor as his or her principal location for his or her practice of medicine or chiropractic.
(Prior Code, § 115.03) (Ord. passed 11-13-1975)
(A) Any person desiring to engage in the business, trade or profession of masseur or masseuse or the operation or carrying on of any businesses, trades, professions, occupations or callings mentioned in § 114.20 of this chapter shall, before engaging in the business, trade, profession, occupation or calling, file an application for a license addressed to the Council.
(B) The applications shall be in writing and shall set forth the following:
(1) Name and address of applicant; if the applicant be a corporation, the address or addresses of the corporation; and
(2) Qualifications, plainly stated and submitted together with required exhibits annexed to the application.
(Prior Code, § 115.04) (Ord. passed 11-13-1975)
An applicant hereunder, prior to making application for a license, must have the following qualifications.
(A) The applicant may be male or female and shall be required to provide proof of good moral character and, in case the applicant is a corporation, the corporation must be created in or domesticated by the laws of the state.
(B) (1) The applicant must furnish a health certificate of a medical doctor, which shall accompany the application as an exhibit.
(2) Should the applicant be a corporation, it shall furnish a certificate to cover its agents or employees who will be actually engaged and working under the license; provided, further, employees who begin work following the original issuance of license under this chapter shall, likewise, obtain the health certificates, which shall be furnished to the Police Department.
(Prior Code, § 115.05) (Ord. passed 11-13-1975)
Whenever, in the opinion of the Chief of Police, there is good cause to revoke a license acquired hereunder, he or she shall submit a written recommendation of revocation to the Council and, by registered mail, shall forward to the licensee a copy of his or her recommendation. The Council shall, thereupon, be authorized to revoke the license if, in its sound discretion, it is in the best interest of the health, safety, welfare or morals of the people of the town.
(Prior Code, § 115.10) (Ord. passed 11-13-1975)
No person shall fail to obtain a license as required herein or to continue operation or continue to engage in any of the businesses after a license therefor has been revoked or to violate any other provisions of this chapter.
(Prior Code, § 115.14) (Ord. passed 11-13-1975)