HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 1261 (Massage Services)CLERK'S CERTIFICATE
I, MARION A. GRADY, City Clerk of the City.pf San
Rafael, and Ex -officio Clerk of the Council of said City do
hereby certify that the foregoing Charter Ordinance P10.1261
entitled:
An Ordinance of the City of San Rafael Repealing Chapter
8.34, Regulations for Massage Establishments, Massage
Sery des and Public Bathhouses, in its entirety and
Reenacting a New Chapter 8.34.
is a true and correct copy of an ordinance of said City, and
was introduced at a regular meeting of the
City Council of the City of San Rafael, held on,the 16th
day of May lq 77 Published as re-
quired by City Charter in the Terra Linda News ,
a newspaper printed and published in the City of San Rafael and
passed and adopted as an ordinance of said City at a
regular meeting of the City Council of said City held on the
6th day of June 19 77 by the following
vote, to -wit:
Ayes: Councilmen- Jensen, Nixon and Mayor Bettini
Noes: Councilmen: Miskimen and Mulryan
Absent: Councilman: None
14ITNESS my hand and the official seal of
the Cid of San Rafael this 8 day of
✓ u-)&__ 1977
MARION A. GRADY, City Clerk.
ORDINANCE 140. 1261
AN ORDIISINCE OF THE CITY OF SAN RAFAEL
REPEALING CHAPTER 8.34, REGULATIONS FOR MASSAGE ESTABLISHMF-NTS,
MASSAGE SERVICES AND PUBLIC BATHHOUSES, IN ITS ENTIRETY AND
REACTING A NEW CHAPTER 8.34
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN RAFAEL DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
DIVISION 1'. Chapter 8.34, Regulations for Massage Establishments,
Massage Services and Public Bathhouses, of the San Rafael Municipal Code is
hereby repealed in its entirety.
DIVISION 2. A new Chapter 8.34, Regulations for Massage Establishments,
Massage Services and Public Bathhouses, is reenacted and shall read as follows:
CHAPTER 8.34 - REGULATIONS FOR MASSAGE ESTABLISHMENTS, MASSAGE SERVICES
AND PUBLIC BATHHOUSES
8.34.010 Purpose and Intent.
8.34.020 Definition.
8.34.030 Massage Establishment Licenses; Massage Technician,
and Employee Permits Required.
8.34.040 Massage Establishment, Massage Technician, Employee
Application Fees.
8.34.050 Application for Massage Establishment License, Massaqe
Technician Permit, or Massage Employee Permit.
8.34.060 Massage Establishment Licenses; Massage Technician,
and Massage Employee Permits; Criteria for Granting and Denying.
8.34.070 Massage Establishment Application; Inspection by
Health Officer.
8.34.080 Massage Establishment Facilities and Operations
Requirements.
8.34.090 Home Use Exception.
8.34.100 Inspection by License Authority.
8.34.110 Issuance of Notice of Violation.
8.34.120 Business Name.
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8.34.130 Business Location Change.
8.34.140 Sale or Transfer of Massage Establishment Interest.
8.34.150 Display of Permits, Licenses.
8.34.160 Revocation or Suspension Recommendation.
8.34.170 Grounds for Revocation or Suspension of License
or Permit.
8.34.180 Hearing by City Manager for Revocation or Suspension.
8.34.190 Right of Appeal.
8.34.200 Exemptions.
8.34.210 Violation and Penalties.
8.34.010 Purpose and Intent. It is the purpose and intent of this
Chapter to provide for the orderly regulation of massage establishments in the
interests of the public health, safety, and welfare by providing certain minimum
building, sanitation, and operation standards for massage establishments, and
by providing certain minimum qualifications for the owners and operators of massage
establishments, for massage technicians, and employees. It is the further intent
of this Chapter to facilitate the ethical practice of massage.
8._34.020 Definitions. For the purpose of this Chapter, unless
the context clearly requires a different meaning, the words, terms, and phrases
hereinafter set forth shall have the meaning given them in this section:
(a) "Health Officer" means the County Health Officer or any
other person exercising the duties of health officer of the City.
(b) "License" means the business license to overate
a massage establishment as required by this Chapter.
(c) "License Authority" means the City Manager or his designee
charged with the administration of this Chapter.
(d) "Massage" means any method of pressure on, or friction
against, or stroking, kneading, rubbing, tapping, .pounding, vibrating, manipulating,
or stimulating the external parts of the human body with the hands or with the
aid of any mechanical, electrical apparatus, or other appliances or devices, with
or without such supplementary aids as rubbing alcohol, liniment, antiseptic, oil,
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powder, cream, lotion, ointment, or similar preparations.
(e) "Massage Establishment" means any establishment having
a fixed place of business or vehicle where any person (as defined in Section 8.34.020 (j))
engages in, conducts, carries on or permits to be engaged in, conducted, or carried
on as regular functions any of the activities mentioned in Section 8.34.020 (d) of
this Section. Any establishment engaging in or carrying on, or permitting any com-
bination of massage and health treatment or bathhouse, showers, hot tubs, saunas,
or other dry or wet heat shall be deemed a massage establishment.
(f) "Massage Technician" means any indiviudal who administers
massage to another person for any consideration whatsoever.
(g) "Employee" means any and all individuals, other than the
massage technicians and massage establishment licensees, who work on the premises
in any capacity that excludes physical contact with the customers and clients.
(h) "Outcall Massage" means the engaging in or carrying
on of massage for consideration at a location other than a massage establishment which
has been licensed pursuant to this Chapter.
(i) "Permit" means the permit to engage in the activities
of a massage technician or massage employee as required by this Chapter.
(j) "Person" means any individual, firm, association, partner-
ship, corporation, joint venture, or combination of individuals.
(k) "Recognized School of Massage" means any school or
institution of learning which has been approved by the Superintendent of Public
Instruction pursuant to Section 29025 of the Education Code of the State of
California and the sections in Title 5 of the California Administrative Code
pertaining to Massage Schools.
Any school or institution of learning offering or allowing
correspondence course credit not requiring actual attendance at class, or courses
of a massage technician not approved by the California State Department of Education
shall not be deemed "a recognized school of massage."
8.34.030 Massage Establishment Licenses; Massage Technician,
and Employee Permits Required.
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person as owner or operator
to engage in, conduct or carry on or to permit to be engaged in, conducted or
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carried on, in or upon r
any premises in the City of San Rafael, the operation of a massage establishment
or an outcall massage service as herein defined, without a valid license issued
by the license authority as required by this Chapter.
(b) It shall be unlawful for any individual to engage
in the practice of massage in the City of San Rafael for any compensation whatsoever
unless such individual holds either a valid massage technician permit issued by the
license authority as required by this Chapter.
(c) It shall be unlawful for any individual who does
not hold a valid massage technician's permit or a valid massage establishment
license to work on the premises of a massage establishment unless said individual
has applied for an employee permit to the license authority as required by this
Chapter. Said application shall be granted or denied within 30 days of date of
application. It shall be unlawful for a massage employee to continue working in
any massage establishment after any denial of said permit.
8.34.040 Massage Establishment, Massage Technician, Employee Application
Fees. Any application for a massage establishment license, massage technician
permit, or massage employee permit shall be accompanied by a non-refundable fee in
amounts established by Resolution of the City Council. The application fees shall
be used to defray the costs of investigation and are not made in lieu of any other fees or
taxes required under this Code. Any individual who applies for a massage establish-
ment license and who desires to act as a massage technician within said establishment
shall be required to pay the establishment license .fee only.
8.34.050 Application for Massage Establishment License; Massage Technician
Permit, or Massage Employee Permit.
(a) Every application for a massage establishment license,
massage technician permit, or permit to work as an employee in a massage establish-
ment shall contain the following information:
applicant.
(1) Name, residence, address, and telephone number of
(2) Drivers license number, if anv.
(3) The previous residence addresses of applicant, if any,
for a period of five years immediately- prior to the date of application, and the
dates of residence at each.
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(4) All other names previously used by applicant
and the dates of use of each such name.
years of age.
eyes.
photograph.
(5) Written proof that the applicant is at least 18
(6) The applicant's weight, height, color of hair and
(7) Two 2" by 2" prints of a recent portrait
(8) The complete history of the applicant as to
all practice and employment in the massage field in any capacity including
ownership or operation of a massage establishment or similar business or occupation,
including all permits and licenses and any revocation or suspension thereof_.
(9) The complete history of the business, occupation
or employment of the applicant for the three years immediately preceding the date
of application.
(10) Whether applicant has within the five years immediately
preceding the date of application been convicted in any State of any crime,
except misdemeanor traffic violations, or, within the last five years been on
parole for any offense.
(11) Whether the applicant is currently required to
register under the provisions of Section 290 of the California Penal Code.
(12) Whether the applicant, including any person
(as defined in 8.34.020 (j)) of which the applicant was a member,
or a former employer of the applicant while so employed or a building in which
the applicant was so employed or a business conducted, was ever subjected to
an abatement proceeding under Section 11225 through 11235 of the California Penal
Code or any similar provisions of law in a jurisdiction outside the State of
California.
(13) Nothing contained herein shall be construed to
deny to the licensing authority the right to take the fingerprints and
additional photographs of the applicant or to confirm the height and weight of
the applicant.
(b) The application for a license to operate a massage
establishment shall also state:
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(1) The exact nature or type of the massage and
treatments to be administered, the proposed place of business and facilities therefor.
(2) If the applicant is a corporation, the name of the
corporation shall be set forth exactly as shown in its Articles of Incorporation,
together with the names and residence addresses of each of its officers, directors,
and each stockholder holding more than ten percent (10%) of the stock of the corpor-
ation. The application shall include the information required by Section 8.34.050 (a)
for each of said individuals.
(3) If the applicant is a partnership, the application
shall set forth the name and residence address of each of the partners, including
limited partners. The application shall include the information required by
Section 8.34.050 (a) for each of said individuals. If one or more of the partners
is a corporation, the provisions of this Section pertaining to a corporate applicant
shall apply.
state:
(c) The application for a Massage Technician Permit shall also
(1) The name and address of the recognized school of massage
attended, the dates attended. An original or certified copy of the diploma or
certificate of graduation awarded the applicant shall be attached.
(2) The name and address of the massage establishment
where the applicant is to be employed, if any, and the name of the owner or
operator of the same.
8.34.060 Massage Establishment Licenses; Massage Technician, and
Massage Employee Permits; Criteria for Granting and Denying.
(a) The license authority may deny a massage establishment
license, a massage technician permit, or a massage employee permit when it is
determined that any individual required to comply with Section 8.34.050 (a) in the
application has:
(1) Within five years immediately preceding the date
of filing of the application, been convicted in a court of competent jurisdiction
of any offense which relates directly to the operation of a massage establishment,
whether as a massage establishment owner or operator, or as a massage technician,
or as a masseur or masseuse, or as an employee of the establishment; or has at
any time been convicted in a court of competent jurisdiction of any felony the
commission of which occurred on the premises of a massage establishment; or
has
(2) Within five years of the date of application been
convicted in a court of competent jurisdiction of any felony offense involving the
sale of a controlled substance specified in Sections 11054, 11055, 11056, 11057,
or 11058 of the California Health and Safety Code; or
(3) Within five years of the date of application been
convicted in a court of competent jurisdiction of any offense involving the use of
a controlled substance, other than marijuana, specified in Sections 11054, 11055,
11056, 11057, or 11058 of the California Health and Safety Code; or
(4) Is currently required to register under the
provisions of Section 290 of the California Penal Code; or
(5) Within five years of the date of application been
convicted in a court of comiDetent jurisdiction of any violation of Sections 266,
315, 316, 318, or Subdivision (b) of Section 647 of the California Penal Code,
or conspiracy or attempt to commit any such offense, or any offense in a jurisdiction
outside the State of California which is the equivalent of any of the aforesaid
offenses; or,
(6) Been subjected to a permanent injunction against the
conducting or maintaining of a nuisance pursuant to Section 11225 through 11235 of the
California Penal Code, or any similar provision of law in a jurisdiction outside
the State of California;
(7) Knowingly made a false statement or omission of
a material fact in the application for the license or permit.
(8) Not attained the age of eighteen years.
(b) The license authority shall grant a massae establishment
license to an applicant who has satisfied the requirements of Sections 8.34.040,
8.34.050 (a) and (b), 8.34.080 as qualified by 8.34.090, the hone use exception, unless
the applicant is disqualified pursuant to 8.34.060 (a) or unless the establishment,
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as proposed by the lir._nse applicant, would not comply--ith all other applicable
laws including, but not limited to, the City's building, zoning, and health
regulations.
(c) The license authority shall grant a massage technician
permit to an applicant Tno has satisfied the requirements of Sections 8.34.040 and
8.34.050 (a) and (c) and has graduated from a recognized school, unless the appli-
cant is disqualified pursuant to 8.34.060 (a).
(d) The license authority shall grant a massage employee
permit to an applicant who has satisfied the requirements of Sections 8.34.040 and
8.34.050 (a), unless the applicant is disqualified pursuant to 8.34.060 (a).
8.34.070 Massage Establishment Application - Inspection by Health Officer.
Within thirty days after an applicant for a massage establishment license has filed a
completed application, the health officer shall inspect the proposed place of business to
determine whether it is sanitary and otherwise conforms to the requirements of
Section 8.34.080 as qualified by 8.34.090. Upon completion of the inspection, the
health officer shall, within five days, inform the license authority in writing of
the findings of the inspection.
8.34.080 Massage Establishment Facilities and Operations Requirements.
Except as provided in Section 8.34.090, all massage establishments shall comply with
the following facilities and operations require..me_nts:
(a) A minimum of one (1) tub or shower, and one (1) toilet
and wash basin shall be provided in every massage establishment.
(b) Cabinets or other covered space shall be provided for the
storage of clean linen. Approved receptacles shall be provided for the storage of all
soiled linen and paper towels.
(c) The walls in all rooms where water or steambaths are given
shall have a washable, mold -resistant surface.
(d) All lavatories or wash basins shall be provided with hot
and cold running water, soap and single service towels.
(e) Security deposit facilities capable of being locked by
the patron shall be available for the protection of the valuables of the patrons.
(f) Every portion of a massage establishment, including
appliances and apparatus, and personnel and their clothing, shall be kept clean and in
a sanitary condition at all times. Bath tubs shall be thoroughly cleaned after each use.
(g) All massage establishments shall be provided with clean
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and sanitary towels, sheets, and linens in sufficient Quantity. Towels, sheets
and linens shall not be used by more than one (1) person. Reuse 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 into a
sanitary receptacle.
(h) All walls, ceilings, floors, pools, showers, bathtubs,
bathrooms, steamrooms, and all other physical facilities for the establishment must
be in good repair and maintained in a clean and sanitary condition at all times.
(i) Disinfecting agents and sterilizing equipment shall be
provided for any instruments used in performing acts of massage and said instruments
shall be disinfected and sterilized after each use.
(j) Pads used on massage tables shall be covered with durable,
washable plastic or other acceptable waterproof material.
(k) No massage establishment licensee, massage technician,
or massage employee shall, while on the premises of a massage establishment and in the
presence of any patron or customer, expose his or her genitals, buttocks, or in the
case of a female, her breast(s). No massage technician shall, in the course of admin-
istering any massage, bath, or health treatment, intentionally make physical contact
with the genitals or anus of any other person.
(1) All arrangements for services to be performed
shall be made in a room in the massage establishment which is not used for admin-
istration of massage, baths, or other treatments. Each service offered, the
price thereof, and the minimum length of time each of such service to be performed
shall be roosted in a conspicuous public location in the room in which arrangements
for services are made. All letters and numbers shall not be less than one-half inch
(1/2") in height. No services shall be solicited, performed, or charged for other
than those posted. Arrangements shall be made for and payment shall be made and
received for all services prior to the performance of any service. No massage estab-
lishment licensee, massage technician, or employee shall solicit or offer to perform
for any patron or customer any additional service after the performance of any
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service for such patron or customer has commenced. No massage establishment
licensee, massage technician, or erri,loyee shall perform any service .for any
Patron or customer which was not ordered by such patron or customer prior to the
commencement of performance of any service rendered.
(m) No massage establishment or any portion of a building
in which the massage establishment is located shall be used for residential or
sleeping purposes.
(n) If provision for separate rooms in which services are to
be performed is made, any door to such rooms shall open inward and shall not be
equipped with a locking device.
(o) No alcoholic beverages shall be sold, served, furnished,
kept, or possessed on the premises of a massage establishment.
(p) Any massage technician who provides any outcall massage
service or any combination of massage and health treatment or bathing service at any
motel or hotel, must first notify the owner, manager, or person in charge of the
hotel or motel, by a suitable notation, including the registration number of the
massage technician's permit on the patron's registration that such permittee intends
to provide a massage service to the person registered at the hotel or motel.
(q) No massage establishment shall be kept open for business
and no massage establishment licensee, massage technician, or massage employee shall
administer any massages, bath or other treatment betL,ieen the hours of 10:30 P.M.
of one day and 7:00 A.M. of the following day.
(r) No massage establishment shall be allowed:
(1) Within two hundred fifty feet of the exterior groperty limits
of public or private elementary school, junior high school, or high school;
(2) Within two hundred fifty feet of the exterior
property limits of any district where residential use is the principal permitted use,
including but not limited to, all R-1, R-2, and _R--3 zones, and any P -C district
where the principal use permitted or maintained is residential;
(3) Within twelve hundred .feet of the exterior property
limits of any other premises lawfully occupied by a massage establishment or by
any establishment subject to the provisions of this Chanter.
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8.34.090 Home Use Exception. An exception to the requirements of Section
8.34.080 (e) , (m) , (n) , (o) , and (r) shall be permitted where the massage establish-
ment license applicant is also qualified as a massage technician, the establishment
is in the applicant's residence, and the applicant has complied with the provisions
of Chapter 14.74 pertaining to hcame occupations.
In addition, when a home use exception is granted:
(a) The portions of the home or residence subject to the
requirements of 8.34.080 shall be those portions which are used at anytime by the
patron or customer; and
(b) The provisions of Section 14.74.030 (b) restricting
home occupations to one mom shall not:
(1) Take precedence over the provisions of Section 8.34.080 (1)
requiring that all arrangements for services to be performed be made in a mom in
the massage establishment which is not used for administration of massage, baths or
other treatments; or
(2) Prohibit the administration of massage in a mom that
is separate from that in which baths, showers, hot tubs, saunas or other dry or wet
heat sources are located.
8.34.100 Inspection by License Authority. The license authority or his
designee shall have the right to enter any massage establishment during regular
business hours to make reasonable inspection to ascertain whether the provisions of
this Chapter are being complied krith. A warrant shall be obtained whenever required
by law.
8.34.110 Issuance of Notice of Violation. Whenever the license authority or
his designee makes an inspection of a massage establishment and finds that any provision
of this Chapter has been violated, the license authority shall give notice of such
violation by means of an inspection report or other written notice. In any such noti-
fication, the license authority shall set forth the specific violation or violations
found, and state that failure to comply with any notice issued in accordance with the
provisions of this Chapter may result in the license authority filing a complaint for
revocation or suspension of the license permit.
If the license authority determines that the violations are minor in
nature, the license authority may establish a specific and reasonable period of time
for the correction of the violation or violations and issue a warning to the licensee
or permittee that any continued or further violation of this Chapter may result in
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the filing of a complaint for revocation or suspension of the license or permit.
If the license authority determines that the violations are not minor
in nature, the license authority shall follow the procedures set forth in
Sections 8.34.170 through 8.34.190.
8.34.120 Business Name. No person licensed to operate a massage establish-
ment shall operate under any name or conduct business under any designation
not specified in the license.
8.34.130 Business Location Change. Upon a change of location of a massacre
establishment, an application to the license authority shall be made and such
application shall be granted, provided all applicable provisions of this Code are
complied with and a change of location fee in an amount established by Resolution
of the City Council to defray, in part, the costs of investigation and report,
has been paid to the City.
8.34.140 Sale or Transfer of Massage Establishment Interest. A sale or
transfer of any interest in a massage establishment, which would be required to be
reported in application pursuant to Section 8.34.050 shall be reported to the license
authority within ten days of such sale or transfer. The license authority shall in-
vestigate any person obtaining such interest, and if such person satisfies the
requirements relating to massage establishment license applicants the existing
license shall be endorsed to include such person. A fee in an amount established
by Resolution of the City Council shall be paid to the City for the investigation
by the license authority necessitated by each such sale or transfer.
8.34.150 Display of Permits, Licenses. The licensee shall display the
massage establishment license and the permit of each and every massage technician,
massage employee, employed in the establishment in an open and conspicuous place on
the preiiises. Passport -size photographs of the licensee and permittees shall be affixed
to the respective license and permits on display pursuant to this Section. Home address
of licensee and permittee need not be displayed.
8.34.160 Revocation or Suspension Recommendation. Any City official may
recommend to the City Manager that a license or permit be revoked or suspended
where he determines that grounds exist, as set forth in Section 8.34.170.
8.34.170 Grounds for Revocation or Suspension of License or Permit.
Any license or permit issued pursuant to this Chapter may be suspended or revoked
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by the City Manager after a hearing before the City Manager or his designee, where
it is found by clear and convincing evidence that:
this Chapter; or
(a) The licensee or permittee has violated any provision of
(b) The licensee or permittee has been convicted in a court
of competent jurisdiction of having violated, or has engaged in,conduct constituting
a violation of, any Section of the California Penal Code listed or described in
Section 8.34.060; or
(c) The licensee or permittee is required to register under
Section 290 of the California Penal Code; or
(d) The licensee or permittee has been subjected to a
permanent injunction against the conducting or maintaining of a nuisance pursuant
to Section 11225 through 11235 of the California Penal Code, or any similar provision
of law in any jurisdiction outside the State of California; or
(e) The licensee or permittee has engaged in fraud or mis-
representation or has knowingly made a misstatement of material fact while working
in or for a massage establishment or while engaging in any aspect of providing
outcall massage services; or
(f) The licensee or permittee has failed to correct a vio-
lation found pursuant to Section 8.34.110; or
(g) The licensee has continued to operate the massage
establishment after the license has been suspended; or
(h) The licensee has knowingly allowed a person to work
as a massage technician, massage technician trainee, or massage employee who:
(1) Does not have a valid permit; or
(2) Has engaged in conduct or has been convicted of
conduct described in paragraph (b) of this Section.
8.34.180 Hearing by City Manager for Revocation or Suspension.
(a) The City Manager, or his designee, before revoking or
suspending any license or permit, shall give the licensee or permittee at least ten
(10) days written notice of the alleged grounds for revocation or suspension and
shall conduct a hearing in the matter of whether license or permit shall be
revoked or suspended. The hearing shall be conducted at least ten (10) days
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from the date of written notice.
(b) The City Manager, or his designee, shall consider all
evidence at the hearing. The hearing may, after being commenced within the time
specified pursuant to subdivision (a), be continued for good cause by the City Manager
or his designee from time to time. The City Manager, or his designee, shall at the
conclusion of the hearing, make findings of fact based upon the evidence submitted
and shall decide whether or not the license or permit shall be revoked or suspended.
Notice of the City Manager's or his designee's decision shall be given to the
licensee or permittee within thirty (30) days of the conclusion of the hearing.
8.34.190 Right of Appeal. Any person aggrieved by the action of the
City Manager_ or other officials of the City, acting under this Chapter, may appeal
such decision to the City Council pursuant to this Code.
8.34.200 Exemptions. This Chapter shall not apply to the following
classes of individuals while engaged in the performance of the duties of their
respective professions:
(a) Physicians, surgeons, chiropractors, osteopaths, physical
therapists, nurses, or to any other person licensed to practice any healing art
under the provisions of Division 2 (comT racing with Section 500) of the Business and
Professions Code when engaging in such practice within the scope of his or her
license.
(b) Trainers of any amateur, semiprofessional or professional
athlete or athletic team.
(c) Barbers and cosmetologists who are duly licensed under
the laws of the State of California.
8.34.210 Violation and Penalties. Every person except those mentioned in
Section 8.34.200 whether acting as an owner, employee, operator, massage technician,
or massage employee who gives any massage or baths mentioned in this Chapter for
consideration without first obtaining a permit or license to do so from the City
or violates any provision of this Chapter is guilty of Misdemeanor.
DIVISION 3. All massage establishment licenses, massage technician
permits and massage technician trainee permits in existence and valid before the
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effective date of this Ordinance shall remain valid for the period displayed on
the license or permit.
DIVISION 4. If any Section, Subsection, or portion of this Chapter is
for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court
of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the
remaining portion of this Chapter. The City Council hereby declares that it would
have adopted this Chapter and each Section, Subsection, or portion thereof, irrespective
of the fact that any one or more Sections, Subsections, or portion be declared
invalid or unconstitutional.
DIVISION 5. This Ordinance shall be published once in full before its
final passage in the Terra Linda News a newspaper of general circulation,
printed, published, and circulated in the City of San Rafael, and shall be in full
force and effect thirty (30) days after its final passage.
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C. PAUL BELT 1, yor
Attest:
MRTON A. GRADY, City Clerk
The above and foregoing Ordinance No. 1261 was read and introduced at a
reqular meeting of the City Council of the City of San Rafael,
held on the 16th day of May 1977, and ordered passed to print by the
following vote, to wit:
AYES: COUNCIIMEN: Jensen, Nixon and Mayor Bettini
NOES: COUNCILMEN: Miskimen and Mulryan
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: None
and will come up for adoption as an Ordinance of the City of San Rafael at a
regular meg of the Council to be held on the 6th day of June , 1977.
MARION A. GRADY, City Cle
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