§ 5.107.00. PurposeAuthority.  


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  • It is the purpose and intent of this Article to provide for the orderly regulation of massage businesses within the City, in the interest of the public health, safety and welfare. The City wishes both to recognize the practice of massage as a valid professional field and to discourage prostitution and other unlawful activity which otherwise may become associated with massage businesses.
    This Article relies upon the state certification process of the CAMTC under the Massage Therapy Act (California Business and Professions Code sections 4600 through 4620). In addition, this Article provides certain minimum standards for the operation of massage businesses, their managing employees, and massage therapists.
    This Article is adopted under the authority of Government Code sections 51030 through 51034, Government Code section 37101, Business and Professions Code section 1600, and California Constitution Article XI, Section 7. (Ord. 1234, § 3.)