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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 0624 - Business License for Massage Parlors and Public Bath Houses (Repealed by Ord 1059) C ity TUkWi Washington Cover page to Ordinance 624 The full text of the ordinance follows this cover page. AN ORDINANCE or THE CITY OF T UKW IIA, WASH INGTON, amending Ordinance No. 613, regulating and licensing massage par./ors and public bath- houses within the corporate limits of the City of Tukwila and providing penalties for the violation thereof. Ordinance 624 was amended or repealed by the following ordinances. AMENDED BY: REPEALED BY: 1011 1059 s s CITY g /006 OF T WASHINGTON ORDINANCE NO— 402 4 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF TUKWILA, WASH- INGTON, amending Ordinance No. 613, regulating and licensing massage parlors and public bath- houses within the corporate limits of the City of Tukwila and providing penalties for the violation thereof. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TUKWILA, WASHINGTON, as follows: Section 1: Existing Section 6 of Ordinance 613 is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 6. Issuance and renewal of license Massage Parlor Public Bathhouse. Upon the filing of an application for issuance or renewal of a massage parlor license or public bathhouse license, the City Clerk shall refer the application to the Chief of Police of the City of Tukwila with a request to investigate the state- ments contained in said application and to furnish a written report thereof containing results of his investigation and any other matters which might aid the City in determining whether such license should be issued. The City Clerk shall also refer the application to the Health Officer of the City of Tukwila or to the Director of the King County Health Department with a request for inspection of the premises or proposed premises to determine suitability and adequacy as to sani- tary and physical conditions and to submit a report thereon to the Clerk. Upon receipt of the foregoing reports the City Clerk shall submit the application and said reports with his recommendation to the City Council. If from said reports and other information, the City Council deems the applicant and premises to be fit and proper the City Council shall issue or renew the license applied for. Section 2: Existing Section 7 of Ordinance 613 is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 7. Inspection of Premises. Any massage parlor or public bathhouse as licensed herein shall be at all times open for inspection as to sanitary and moral conditions by the Health Officer of the City of Tukwila, the City Clerk's Office, the Police Department of the City of Tukwila, or a duly authorized employee or agent of the King County Health Department. Section 3: Existing Section 12 of Ordinance 613 is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 12. License Required Massage Operator. It shall be unlawful for any person to give a massage or other treatment to the body of another by rubbing, kneading, hitting or any other manip- ulation in any massage parlor or public bathhouse unless said person has been granted a license as a masseur by King County, Washington, pursuant to King County Resolution No. 31755 as amended by Resolu- tion No. 32850 and No. 35143, requiring licenses for the same and said person is currently licensed in said capacity. In addition thereto, said person must have a massage operator's license issued by the City of Tukwila, the fee of which is hereby affixed in the amount of $20.00 per annum. Section 4: Existing Section 13 of Ordinance 613 is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 13. License Required Massage Parlor Attendant. It shall be unlawful for any person to operate, to assist in the operation of, to start or stop any mechanical device used by another for health, physical well being, or weight reducing purposes, or to position another using such device in any massage parlor or public bathhouse unless said person shall have been granted a massage parlor attendant's license or masseur's license pursuant to King County -2- Resolution No. 31755 as amended by Resolutions No. 32850 and No. 35143, by King County, Washington, which license shall be current and in effect. In addition thereto, said person must have a massage parlor attendant's license from the City of Tukwila, the fee for which is fixed in the sum of Ten Dollars ($10.00) per annum. Section 5: Existing Section 14 of Ordinance 613 is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 14. Application for and Renewal of License. All applications for issuance or renewals of a Massage Operator's License or Massage Parlor Attendant's License shall be made to and be filed with the City Clerk's Office on forms furnished by him for such pur- pose and the same shall state the true name and address of the appli- cant who shall not be less than twenty -one years of age and shall in- clude references as to moral character of the applicant from at least three reputable citizens of King County, which latter requirement need not be complied with in the case of an application for a license renewal. Upon filing of such application and if the Clerk finds the application to be in proper form and references to be authentic, he shall refer the same to the Police Department of the City of Tukwila with the request to investigate the statements contained in said appli- cation and for him to furnish a written report containing the results of his investigation, together with such other information as may aid the City Council in determining whether such installation should be at issue. The City Clerk shall also refer the application to the Health Officer of the City of Tukwila or the Director of the Seattle King County Health Department with the request to examine the appli- cant physically to ascertain that said applicant is free from con- tagious or infectious diseases and to make a written report thereon. In addition to the foregoing any such applicant shall submit to an examination by the King County Examining Board for Masseurs as established by Resolution No. 31755 as amended by Resolution No. 32850 and No. 35143 and to comply with all requirements thereof. -3- Upon receipt of the foregoing reports and the finding that such applicant has been approved by the aforespecified Examining Board, and if from said reports and other information available the Council deems the applicant to be a fit and proper person, the City Council shall issue or shall renew the license applied for. Any applicants for renewal licenses who have previously been approved by the Examining Board and the City of Tukwila and found qualified need not resubmit to such Examining Board. The City Council may issue a temporary permit to any appli- cant, in the case of initial application, to be effective for not more than thirty days for good cause shown or if such applicant has a valid, effective license issued by King County for any of the afore- said position or positions. In any such case however, an investiga- tion shall be made by the Police Department and Health Officer of the City of Tukwila prior to the issuance of such temporary permits. Section 6: Existing Section 16 of Ordinance 613 is hereby amended to read as follows. Section 16. Suspension or Revocation of License. Public Hearing: In addition to any other penalty provided herein or by law, the City Council after due notice of a hearing is given to the licensee of not less than ten days, shall have the right to suspend or revoke any license issued pursuant to the terms of this ordinance, after a hearing thereon. Such suspension or revocation of any license granted in this ordinance may be undertaken by the City Council or its duly authorized committee upon a showing that any establishment or premise licensed hereunder is operated in violation of any of the provisions herein or that said establishment or facility has allowed, harbored, admitted or received or permitted in or about such premises any prostitute, lewd or dissolute person, drunken or boisterous person, -4- any person under the influence of intoxicating liquor or narcotic drug, or any person whose conduct tends in any way to corrupt the public morals. Secton 7: Existing Section 18 of Ordinance 613, is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 18. Violation Penalties. Every person, whether as principal, agent or otherwise, who fails, neglects or refuses to comply with any provisions or terms of this ordinance or violates the same, or allows an unlicensed person to be employed or work within any facility shall be guilty of a misdemeanor upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or be imprisoned for a period of not more than six months or by both such fine and imprisonment. Each day of such failure, neglect or refusal to comply with the provisions of this ordinance or the viola- tion of the same shall constitute a separate offense hereunder. Section 8: That Ordinance 613 is amended by adding Para- graph 19. Section 19. Standard of Premises. Prior to the issuance of any license for any Message-Parlor or Public Bathhouse, and prior to the operation of any business therein, it shall be the duty of the City's Building Department, the City Health Officer and the King County Health Department to inspect the premises or proposed prem- ises to determine if the following standards and requirements have been met and it shall be the duty of the operator or owner of such facility to meet such requirements and to maintain same at all times in a clean, safe and sanitary manner, to -wit: (a) Adequate lighting, heating and ventilating to be installed and maintained in all parts of the facility in full compliance with the City's applicable building, mechanical, plumbing, electrical and related codes. -5- (b) All floors within the facility shall be constructed of impervious easily cleanable material with approved floor drain. (c) Each patron using such facility shall be furnished with an individual clean towel or disposable paper mat by the operator thereof; towels shall not be reused until they are washed and sanitized. There shall be adequate facility for towel and mat storage. (d) All toilet and handwashing facilities shall be avail- able as required in the City's plumbing code applicable to places of public assembly. (e) All plumbing shall be installed according to the City's plumbing code and shall be free of potential cross connections. (f) If any facility contains any swirling water pools where more than one person is immersed, such pools shall be maintained under the same restriction as any public or semi public pool. Bacterial quality shall be such that not more than 15% of any series of samples nor more than two consecutive samples in any series of samples collected at times when the pool is in use shall allow the presence of coliform bacteria in any of the 5 ten ml. portions examined. Chlorine residual of .4 ppm in all parts of the pool while in use will assure acceptable bacteriological standards. (g) Chlorine and PH test kit should be used routinely to check the chemical make up of pool water and results to be recorded on a daily log sheet and be kept current at all times. (h) Any tool or benches in any bath facility should be easily cleanable and soundly constructed. They should be covered with single service towels when in use. (i) All exercise equipment and appliances shall be routinely checked for possible structural weaknesses and shall be maintained in a safe and sanitary manner at all times. (j) Gym mats with an easily cleanable surface shall be used only. These should be cleaned and disinfected each day. (k) All pools must be provided with recirculation and filtering equipment which equipment shall include a rate of flow indicator and a loss of head guage for the backwash filter. (1) All shower and dressing facilities shall be available outside the pool area. Such area must be well lighted and ventilated with non -slip floor finish provided on floors sloping to a floor drain. (m) A safety bar or hand rail shall be installed in the pool easily accessible to users in every area of the pool. The rooms housing the swirl pool and sauna shall have adequately sized windows for ob- serving users of said facilities. (n) Any sauna bath or similar facility shall duly post a maximum exposure time table as suggested by the manufacturer thereof. -6- (o) Slanted or sloped ceilings shall be used in the sauna area to prevent dripping of hot water on users. (p) Any facilities using ultra violet exposure rooms in their establishment shall post maximum exposure time which shall not exceed three minutes for any individual. PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TUKWILA, WASHINGTON, this /,day of 1970. ATTEST: 4 /9 46.1 i i G% 44-1 CiTY CLERK APPROVED AS TO FORM: CITY ATTORNEY U CITY OF TUKWILA BY: PUBLISHED IN THE RECORD CHRONICLE /9" 9 76 G 64 e14/t v Mayor R PO 'TEA?