(a) No person who owns, operates, manages or supervises the operation of a massage establishment shall do any of the following:
(1) Allow any employee or any therapist to appear in any state of undress, to wear transparent clothing, or clothing that otherwise reveals a specified anatomical area;
(2) Allow any employee or therapist to provide a massage treatment to a client who is in a state of nudity, a state of semi-nudity, or who reveals a specified anatomical area.
(b) No person shall do any of the following:
(1) Advertise or offer massage treatments or a related service unless they are exempt or are licensed to provide such massage treatments;
(2) Appear in a massage establishment in any state of undress, transparent clothing, or clothing that otherwise reveals a specified anatomical area;
(3) Provide a massage treatment to a client who is in a state of nudity, a state of semi-nudity, or who reveals a specified anatomical area.
(c) No person shall place, publish, distribute, or cause to be placed, published, or distributed any advertising material using sexual or provocative words or images.
(d) No person shall advertise massage treatment services with the suggestion or promise of a sexual service or activity.
(e) Nothing in this section shall prohibit a massage therapist from providing a massage treatment to a client who is in a state of undress or who reveals a specified anatomical area provided that the massage therapist shall not engage in sexual misconduct as defined in Ohio Administrative Code 4731-26-01(H).
(Ord. 2018-13. Passed 6-19-18.)