Title 5 - Business Licenses and Regulations

5.50.480 Restriction of Business to Premises.

1. A.
   All massage therapy (not to include in-office massage) provided for under this Chapter shall be conducted on the premises of a licensed massage establishment.
2. B.
   Subject to subsection C, all licensed massage establishments shall be operated from a commercial business premise. Sole practitioners (therapists who work alone), are required to have both a massage therapist license and massage establishment license and to work from a commercial business premise.
3. C.
   Licensed massage therapists may perform their services on behalf of clients in clients’ homes or residences or other designated places, or in the therapist's home or residence provided that the therapist's home is licensed as a massage establishment and provided that any place where massage therapy is performed is subject to the inspection as set out in Sections 5.50.360 and 5.50.390, operated in accordance with the regulations set out in Section 5.50.400, and if conducted in a therapist's home or residence, subject to the home occupation requirements in Title 18.

(History: Ord. MP-2790 §19, 2008)

Effective on: 1/1/1901