§ 33.5-2. Definitions.

Words and phrases used in this chapter shall have the following meanings ascribed to them:

(1)

Director means the director of excise and licenses of the city.

(2)

Manager means the manager of the department of public health and environment of the city or the authorized representative thereof.

(3)

Massage means a method of treating the body for remedial or hygienic purposes or for the purpose of infant stimulation; including, but not limited to, rubbing, stroking, kneading, or tapping with the hand or an instrument or both.

(4)

Massage parlor means an establishment providing massage, but it does not include training rooms of public and private schools accredited by the state board of education or approved by the division charged with the responsibility of approving private occupational schools, training rooms or recognized professional or amateur athletic teams, and licensed health care facilities. A facility which is operated for the purpose of massage therapy performed by a massage therapist is not a massage parlor.

(5)

Massage therapist means a person who has graduated from a massage therapy school accredited by the state educational board or division charged with the responsibility of approving private occupational schools, or from a school with comparable approval or accreditation from another state with transcripts indicating completion of at least five hundred (500) hours of training in massage therapy. For the purposes of this chapter, a massage therapy school may include an equivalency program approved by the state educational board or division charged with the responsibility of approving private occupational schools.

(6)

Person means a natural person, partnership, company, association, corporation, organization, or managing agent, servant, officer or employee of any of them.

(Ord. No. 209-92, § 1, 4-13-92; Ord. No. 1110-96, § 1, 12-16-96; Ord. No. 427-18, § 20, 6-11-18)

Cross reference

Definitions and rules of construction, § 1-2.