Every massage establishment shall comply with the following requirements:
A. Each person employed or acting as a massage technician shall have a valid permit issued by the city and it shall be unlawful for the owner, operator, responsible managing employee, manager, or permittee in charge of or in control of the establishment to employ or permit a person to act as a massage technician as defined in this code who is not in possession of a valid unrevoked massage technician's permit.
B. Bath and massage operations shall be carried on and the premises shall be open only between the hours of seven a.m. and nine p.m. All customers, patrons, and visitors shall be excluded from the premises when the massage facility is closed.
C. A list of services available and the costs of such services shall be posted in an open, public place on the premises and shall be described in readily understandable language and all letters and numbers shall be capitals not less than one-half inch in height. No owner, operator, responsible managing employee manager, or permittee shall permit and no massage technician shall offer to perform services other than those posted, nor charge a price in excess of those posted for the provision of any service.
D. All massage establishments shall be provided with clean and sanitary towels, sheets, and linens in sufficient quantity. Towels, sheets, and linens shall not be used by more than one person. Reuse of such linen is prohibited unless the same has first been laundered. Heavy white paper may be substituted for sheets provided that such paper is used once for each person and then discarded in a sanitary receptacle.
E. Wet and dry heat rooms, steam or vapor rooms or cabinets, shower rooms and compartments, toilet rooms and pools shall be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected as needed and at least once each day the premises are open, with a disinfectant approved by the health department. Bathtubs shall be thoroughly cleaned with disinfectant approved by the health department after each use. All walls, ceilings, floors, pools, showers, bathtubs, steam rooms, and all other physical facilities for the establishment must be in good repair and maintained in a clean and sanitary condition.
F. All employees and massage technicians shall perform all services on the premises in full outer garments. For the purposes of this chapter, the term "full outer garments" shall refer to the person being clothed in such a state that all parts of the person's body are covered, from and including the top of the person's shoulders to a point no higher than one inch above the top of the knee.
G. No person shall enter, be or remain in any part of a massage establishment while in possession of, consuming, or using any alcoholic beverage or drugs except pursuant to a prescription for such drugs. The owner, operator, responsible managing employee, manager, or permittee shall not permit any such person to enter or remain upon such premises.
H. No massage establishment shall operate a school of massage, nor use the same facilities as that of a school of massage. It shall be unlawful for any person to perform any massage upon a member of the general public while on the premises of a school of massage. Instructors and students of such schools may practice massage only upon a bona fide employee of the school or student. A dummy may be used.
I. No owner, operator, responsible managing employee, manager or permittee in charge of or in control of a massage establishment shall, during the course of any service or task associated with any element of a massage operation, permit any person to massage or touch the genitals of another person.
J. No massage technician shall touch the genitals of a patron during the course of any service or task associated with any element of the massage operation.
K. Due to the requirement and need for accountability in the provision of massage, it shall be unlawful for any massage establishment to permit a massage technician to provide massage within the establishment unless that massage technician is an employee directly accountable to the holder of the massage establishment license.
L. There shall be an owner, operator, managing employee, or manager (hereinafter managerial personnel) on the premises at all times the establishment is opened for business. The managerial personnel shall wear a plainly visible tag identifying them as managerial personnel. The permittee shall submit the names of all managerial personnel to the city prior to commencing operation or on the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter, whichever occurs later. The permittee shall update the list as the identity of managerial personnel changes. (Ord. 832-97 §§ 3, 4; Ord. 802-96 § 2 (part))