§ 5.44.080. Facilities necessary.

No permit to conduct a massage establishment shall be issued unless an inspection conducted pursuant to Section 5.44.090 reveals that the establishment complies with each of the following minimum requirements:

A.

Construction of rooms used for toilets, tubs, saunas, steam baths and showers shall be performed in accordance with the provisions of the Uniform Building Code of the City;

B.

Lighting shall be provided which is not less than the minimum required by the Uniform Building Code of the City. In addition, at least one artificial light of not less than 40 watts shall be provided in each enclosed room or booth where massage services are being performed on a patron;

C.

Ventilation shall be provided which is not less than the minimum required by the Uniform Building Code of the City;

D.

Adequate equipment for disinfecting and sterilizing instruments used in performing the acts of massage shall be provided;

E.

Hot and cold running water shall be provided at all times;

F.

Closed cabinets shall be provided which cabinets shall be utilized for the storage of clean linen;

G.

In any establishment in which massage services are rendered only to members of the same sex at any one time, such persons of the same sex may be placed in a single separate room or the operators of the massage establishment may elect to place, such persons of the same' sex in separate enclosed rooms or booths having adequate ventilation to an area outside the room or booth while massage services are being performed;

H.

Adequate bathing, dressing, locker, and toilet facilities shall be provided for patrons. A minimum of one tub or shower, one dressing room containing a separate locker for each patron to be served, which locker shall be capable of being locked, as well as a minimum of one toilet and one wash basin shall be provided by every massage establishment; provided, however, that if male and female patrons are to be served simultaneously at the establishment, separate massage room or rooms/ separate dressing and separate toilet facilities shall be provided for male and female patrons.

I.

All walls, ceilings, floors, pools, showers, bath tubs, steam rooms, and all other physical facilities of the establishment must be in good repair and maintained in a clean and sanitary condition. Wet and dry heat rooms, steam or vapor cabinets, shower compartments, and toilet rooms shall be thoroughly cleaned after each use;

J.

Clean and sanitary towels and linens shall be provided for each patron of the establishment or each patron receiving massage services. No common use of towels or linens shall be permitted;

K.

A minimum of one separate wash basin shall be provided in each massage establishment for the use of employees of any such establishment, which basin shall provide soap or detergent and hot and cold running water at all times and shall be located within or as close as practicable to the area devoted to the performing of massage services. In addition, there shall be permanently installed dispensers.

(Ord. 438 §8, 1972)