All massage establishments within the city pursuant to this chapter must comply with the following facility requirements:
A. Every massage establishment shall comply with all applicable city code and state law requirements and standards, including, but not limited to, those related to health, zoning, fire, and safety.
B. All massage establishments must comply with all state and federal laws and regulations pertaining to disabled clients.
C. It is unlawful for any massage establishment or its owner(s) or operator(s) to allow, hire, or employ any person or independent contractor for the purpose of performing or engaging in the practice of massage without requiring that person to possess a current and valid CAMTC certificate, unless that person has complied with this chapter's massage therapy permit requirements.
D. Massage therapy establishments may be located as a stand-alone use or as an accessory use to a barber shop or beauty parlor in any land use zone in which barber shops and/or beauty parlors are permitted or conditionally permitted provided that the proposed location of the massage therapy establishment is not located within three hundred (300) feet from a parcel upon which a sexually oriented business is located which shall be measured in a straight line, without regard to intervening structures, from the closest exterior structural wall of each business.
E. No certificate of occupancy shall be issued for any newly constructed structure or substantial expansion or enlargement of a structure that will contain a massage therapy establishment until a massage therapy establishment permit has been validly issued for the subject premises pursuant to this chapter.
F. The massage therapy establishment permit shall be posted in a conspicuous place on the premises within the reception area of the massage establishment.
G. A copy of the personal massage therapy permit for each personal massage therapist shall be kept on file on the premises of the massage establishment.
H. A copy of each diploma or certificate of graduation for each personal massage therapist shall be kept on file on the premises of the massage establishment unless the personal massage therapist is certified under CAMTC.
I. A recent photograph of each personal massage therapist shall be kept on file on the premises of the massage establishment.
J. A list of massage therapy services available at the massage establishment, a description of services in readily understandable language, and the cost of such services shall be posted in a conspicuous place on the premises within the reception area of the massage establishment.
(Ord. 423 § 1, 2023)