180757
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
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