Ordinance amending the Health Code to comprehensively revise the regulation of massage practitioners, massage establishments, massage outcall services, and sole practitioner massage establishments by, among other things: 1) authorizing the Director of Health (“Director”) to access local, state, and federal criminal history information of permit applicants and permit holders; 2) eliminating temporary massage practitioner permits; 3) clarifying the administrative process by which permit applicants and permit holders may appeal a decision to deny, suspend, or revoke a permit; 4) adding or revising massage establishment operating standards relating to vermin, employee areas, locked doors, residential use, and advertising; 5) prohibiting a massage business from operating a massage school on the same premises as a massage establishment; 6) establishing a massage establishment reinspection fee of $191 per hour; 7) updating administrative and permit penalties; 8) authorizing the imposition of a lien on a property that has contributed to a violation of Article 29 of the Health Code (“Article 29”) to collect unpaid administrative penalties, enforcement costs, fines, interest, and attorneys’ fees; 9) authorizing the City Attorney to institute civil proceedings for injunctive and monetary relief for violations of Article 29; 10) declaring violations of select provisions of Article 29 to be public nuisances; and 11) discontinuing the acceptance of applications for massage practitioner permits effective January 1, 2019.

Committee

Clerk of the Board

Introduced

July 17, 2018

Passed

November 20, 2018

Enacted

November 20, 2018

Enactment no.

272-18