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No person, association, partnership or corporation shall engage in, conduct or carry on, or permit to be engaged in, conducted or carried on, the operation of a massage establishment unless each and all of the following requirements are met:

A. Massage operations shall be carried on, and the premises shall be open, only between the hours of ten a.m. and twelve a.m. (midnight).

B. A list of services available and the cost of such services shall be posted in an open and conspicuous public place on the premises. The services shall be described in readily understandable language. No person shall permit or offer to perform any services other than those posted.

C. A minimum of one tub or shower and one toilet and washbasin shall be provided for the patrons in every massage establishment. Hot and cold running water under pressure shall be provided to all washbasins, bathtubs, showers and similar equipment. Each washbasin shall be provided with soap or detergent and sanitary towels placed in permanently installed dispensers. A trash receptacle shall be provided in every toilet room.

D. The massage establishment shall provide each client or patron thereof with a separate locker which shall have a locking device of a type approved by the chief of police or his designee and to which each client or patron shall be given a key and be allowed to store therein any valuables which the client or patron may bring to the massage establishment. There shall be no duplicate keys to such lockers; however, the owner, manager or the operator of the premises may retain, within his or her sole management or control, a master key which allows access to such lockers. Said master key may be utilized for emergency purposes only when a locker or lockers contain valuables belonging to a client or patron of the massage establishment.

E. Clean and sanitary towels, sheets and linens shall be provided for each patron receiving massage services. No common use of towels or linens shall be permitted and reuse is prohibited unless they have been first relaundered. Heavy white paper may be substituted for sheets; provided, that such paper is used once for each person then discarded into a sanitary receptacle.

F. Disinfecting agents and sterilizing equipment sufficient to assure the cleanliness and safe condition thereof shall be provided for any instruments used in performing any massage. Instruments shall be disinfected after use on each patron.

G. Pads used on massage tables shall be covered in a workmanlike manner with durable, washable plastic or other waterproof material.

H. No massage establishment granted a license under the provisions of this chapter shall place, publish or distribute, or cause to be placed, published or distributed, any advertisement, picture or statement which is known or through the exercise of reasonable care should be known to be false, deceptive or misleading in order to induce any person to purchase or utilize any professional massage services.

I. No person shall sell, give, dispense, provide or keep, or cause to be sold, given, dispensed, provided or kept, any alcoholic beverage on the premises of any massage establishment.

J. No person shall enter, be or remain in any part of a massage establishment while in the possession of or while consuming or using any alcoholic beverage or drugs, except pursuant to a prescription for such drugs. The owner, operator or manager shall not permit any such person to enter or remain upon such premises. (Ord. 2016-03 § 1, 2016)