For the purpose of this Chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning:
(a) "Applicant" means a person applying for a permit under this Chapter and includes all partners, including limited partners of a partnership applicant, any officer or director of a corporate applicant, and any stockholder holding more than ten percent (10%) of the stock of a corporate applicant.
(b) "Employee" means any person over eighteen years of age, other than the masseurs or masseuses, who render any service in connection with the massage business and receives compensation from the operator of the business or patrons.
(c) "Licensee" means the person certified by the State Medical Board and to whom the City has issued a license to own or operate a massage establishment as defined herein.
(d) "Massage" means any method of pressure on or friction against, or stroking, kneading, rubbing, tapping, pounding, vibrating or stimulating of the external soft parts of the human body with the hands or with the aid of mechanical or electrical apparatus or appliances with or without such supplementary aids as rubbing alcohol, liniments, antiseptics, oils, powder, creams, lotions, ointments or other such similar preparations commonly used in the practice.
(e) "Massage establishment" means any establishment having a source of income or compensation derived from the practice of massage as defined in subsection (d) hereof and which has a fixed place of business where any person, firm, association or corporation engages in or carries on any of the activities as defined in subsection (d) hereof, or in connection with the provisions of another legitimate service.
(f) "Massagist," "Masseur" or "Masseuse" means any person who, for any consideration whatsoever, engages in the practice of massage, under a license issued by the State of Ohio or upon completion of a court of instruction for a period of not less than one (1) year and a minimum of six hundred (600) clock hours at an approved school of massage therapy.
(g) "Outcall massage service" means any business, the function of which is to engage in or carry on massages at a location designated by the customer or client rather that at a massage establishment as defined in subsection (e) hereof.
(h) "Patron" means any person eighteen years of age or older who receives a massage under such circumstances that it is reasonably expected that he or she will pay money or give any other consideration therefore; or any person under eighteen years of age who receives a massage under such circumstances that it is reasonably expected that he or she will pay money or give any other consideration therefore, and who is referred for the massage by the written prescription of a licensed medical doctor.
(i) "Permit" means that document issued by the City of Willoughby Hills authorizing the operation of a massage establishment within its jurisdiction.
(j) "Permittee" means the operator of a massage establishment, to which a permit has been issued to act in the capacity of a massagist, masseur or masseuse, as defined in subsection (f) hereof.
(k) "Person" means any individual, partnership, firm, association, joint stock company, corporation or combination of individuals of whatever form or character.
(l) "Recognized school" means any school or educational institution licensed to do business as a school or educational institution in the State of Ohio or any school recognized by or approved by the State of Ohio and approved or affiliated with the American Massage and Therapy Association, Inc., and which has for its purpose the teaching of the theory, method, profession or work of massage; which school requires a resident course of study not less than seventy hours before the student shall be furnished with a diploma or certificate of graduation from such school or institution of learning following the successful completion of such course of study or learning.
(m) "Sexual or genital area" means the genitals, pubic area, anus or perineum of any person, or the vulva or breasts of a female.
(n) "City" means the City of Willoughby Hills, Lake County, Ohio.
(Ord. 2021-033. Passed 6-10-21.)