Legal Documents of Gatlinburg

Code of Gatlinburg

Gatlinburg
Title 9 : Business, Peddlers, Solicitors, etc.
Chapter 8 : Massage Establishments

9-815 : Operating requirements.

  1. Every portion of the massage establishment, including appliances and apparatus, shall be kept clean and operated in a sanitary condition.
  2. Price rates for all services shall be prominently posted in the reception area in a location available to all prospective customers.
  3. All employees, including masseurs and masseuses, shall be clean and wear clean, nontransparent outer garments, covering the sexual and genital areas, whose use is restricted to the massage establishment. A separate dressing room for each sex must be available on the premises with individual lockers for each employee. Doors to such dressing room shall open outward and shall be self-closing.
  4. All massage establishments shall be provided with clean, laundered sheets and towels in sufficient quantity and shall be laundered after each use thereof and stored in a sanitary manner.
  5. No massage establishment granted a license under the provisions of this chapter shall place, publish or distribute or cause to be placed, published or distributed any advertisement, picture, or statement which is known or through the exercise of reasonable care should be known to be false, deceptive or misleading in order to induce any person to purchase or utilize any professional massage services.
  6. All patrons of the massage establishment shall register and the establishment shall keep and maintain a complete written record of all its patrons for a period of one year. (1976 Code, § 5-915)
Date Last Updated: 03/23/2022
Codification Date: 03/01/2000

Officials at Date of Last Codification:

Mayor - Mike Werner

Vice Mayor - Mark McCown

Commissioner - Ryan DeSear

Commissioner - Chad Reagan

Commissioner - Kirby Smith

City Manager - Cindy Cameron Ogle

City Attorney - Ronald E. Sharp