<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 10-20. - Definitions.</div>
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               The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the
               meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates
               a different meaning:
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               <span class="ital">Advertisement, soliciting business for, or providing information relevant to obtaining
                  massages or physical treatment regulated under this article</span> means the carrying on of the business, trade or profession of masseur or masseuse,
               and for the operation of carrying on of the businesses, trades or professions commonly
               known as massage parlors, massage establishments, health salons, physical culture
               studios, clubs, or establishments, or similar establishments, by whatever name designated,
               or however situated, wherever physical culture, massage, hydrotherapy or other physical
               treatment of the human body is carried on or practiced.
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               <span class="ital">Employee</span> means any individual who renders any service in connection with the operation of
               a massage establishment and receives compensation therefor, including, but not limited
               to, massages.
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               <span class="ital">License</span> means:
               
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                  (1)
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                  A certificate or document itself which certifies that the operator has complied with
                  all the regulations required under this article to operate a massage parlor on the
                  premises listed on the face of the certificate or document.
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                  (2)
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                  A certificate or document itself which certifies that an individual has complied with
                  all the regulations required under this article to operate as a masseur or masseuse,
                  or to function as an employee, whether parttime or fulltime, of a massage parlor or
                  massage establishment.
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               <span class="ital">Massage</span> means pressure on, friction against, stroking and kneading the body by manual or
               mechanical means, and/or gymnastics, with or without appliances such as vibrators,
               infrared heat, sunlamps and external baths or supplemental aids such as oils, creams,
               alcohol, powder for actual or apparent hygienic purposes, under such circumstances
               that it is reasonably expected that the person to whom the treatment is provided or
               some third person on his behalf will pay money or give any other consideration or
               any gratuity therefor.
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               <span class="ital">Massage parlor</span> or<span class="ital">massage establishment</span> means any establishment which offers service in the form of massage, baths, exercises,
               or similar services in combination to club members or to the public for a charge.
               
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                  (1)
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                  The term "massage parlor" or "massage establishment" does not include:
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                  a.
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                  Hospitals, nursing homes, medical clinics, or other offices or quarters of a licensed
                  physician, surgeon, osteopath or physical therapist.
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                  b.
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                  Exercise clubs exclusively for members or clientele of one sex alone where the service,
                  without massage in any form, is performed by persons of the same sex as the members
                  or clientele.
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                  c.
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                  Barbershops and beauty parlors, where massaging is limited to the neck, face, scalp
                  and hair of the customer or client for cosmetic or beautifying purposes.
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                  (2)
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                  The term "massage parlors," "massage establishments," "health clubs" or "health salons"
                  are used synonymously as defined herein, by the above definition for massage parlors.
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               <span class="ital">Masseur</span> or<span class="ital">masseuse</span> means a person who practices any one or more of the arts of body massage, either
               by hand or mechanical apparatus, oil rubs, corrective gymnastics, mechanotherapy,
               including color therapy, hot packs, cabinet, tub, shower, sitz, vapor, steam or any
               other special type of bath.
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               <span class="ital">Nudity</span> means uncovered or less than opaquely covered post-pubertal human genitals, pubic
               areas, the post-pubertal human female breasts below a point immediately above the
               top of the areola, or the covered human male genitals in a discernibly turgid state.
               For the purpose of this definition, a female breast is considered uncovered if the
               nipple only or the nipple and the areola only are covered.
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               (Code 1984, Â§ 8-2; Ord. of 9-2-1986)
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