Legal Documents of Rockford

For the purpose of this chapter, the words and phrases used herein shall have the following meanings, unless otherwise clearly indicated by the context:

1. "Massage" the administering by any person by any method of exerting or applying pressure, friction, moisture, heat or cold to the human body, and/or rubbing, stroking, kneading, pounding, tapping, or otherwise manipulating a part or the whole of the human body or the muscles or joints thereof, by any physical or mechanical means. Massage shall also mean the giving, receiving, or administering of a bath to any person, or the application of body oils, body paint or other colorant to any person.
2. "Massage parlor" shall include, but not be limited to, any premises, place of business, or membership club and further means any premises to which the public patrons or members (regardless of whether or not the establishment is categorized as a private or members only club) are invited or admitted and/or which are so physically arranged as to provide booths, cubicles, rooms, compartments or stalls separate or not from the common areas of the premises for the purpose of conducting the business or activity of furnishing, providing or giving for a fee, or any other form of consideration, a massage, bath, body oiling, body painting, or similar massage service or procedure. This definition shall not be construed to include a hospital, nursing home, medical clinic, or office of a duly licensed physician, surgeon, physical therapist, chiropractor or osteopath. Nor shall this definition be construed to include a barbershop or beauty salon operated by a duly licensed barber or cosmetologist, so long as any massage administered therein is limited to the head and neck areas of the human body.
3. "Massage technician" shall be any person who is administering a massage to another at a massage parlor.
4. "City commission" means the Mayor and City Commissioners of the City of Rockford, Tennessee.
5. "Employee" means any and all person, including independent contractors, who work in or at or render any services directly related to the operation of a massage parlor.
6. "Owner and/or operator" means any person, partnership, corporation, or entity of any type or character operating, conducting or maintaining a massage parlor. (as added by Ord. #120904-2, Jan. 2005)