Legal Documents of Rockford

Code of Rockford

Table of Contents » Title 9 Business, Peddlers, Solicitors, etc. » Chapter 3 Massage Parlors Massage Technicians And Other Massage Parlor Employees » § 9-311 Revocation of license or permit.
Print This Page
PDF
Go to
9
Title 9
9-1
Title 9, Chapter 1
9-101
§ 9-101
Rockford
Title 9 : Business, Peddlers, Solicitors, etc.
Chapter 3 : Massage Parlors Massage Technicians And Other Massage Parlor Employees

9-311 : Revocation of license or permit.

  1. Power, generally. The city manager and/or the city recorder shall have the power to revoke or suspend any license or permit for up to ten (10) years for any of the following reasons:
    1. Discovery that false or misleading information or data was given on any application or material facts were omitted from any application.
    2. The owner and/or operator, technician, or any employee of the owner and/or operator, violates any provision of this chapter or any rule or regulation adopted by the city commissioner pursuant to this chapter; provided, however, that in the case of a first offense by an owner and/or operator where the conduct was solely that of a technician and/or employee, the penalty shall not exceed a suspension of one hundred and twenty (120) days if the city manager shall find that the owner and/or operator had no actual or constructive knowledge of such violation and could not by the exercise of due diligence have had such actual or constructive knowledge.
    3. The owner and/or operator, technician and/or employee shall become ineligible to obtain a license or permit.
    4. Any cost or fee required to be paid by this chapter is not paid.
    5. An owner and/or operator that employs a technician and/or employee who does not have a permit or provide space on the premises, whether by lease or otherwise, to an independent contractor who performs or works as a massage technician and/or employee of said independent contractor without a permit.
    6. Any intoxicating liquor, cereal malt beverage, narcotic or controlled substance is allowed to be sold or consumed on the licensed premises.
    7. Any owner and/or operator, technician and/or employee sells, furnishes, gives or displays, or causes to be sold, furnished, given or displayed to any minor any massage services and/or procedures as afore mentioned and described.
    8. Any owner and/or operator, technician and/or employee denies access of law enforcement personnel to any portion of the licensed premises where massage services and/or procedures are permitted or to any portion of the licensed premises within massage services and/or procedures or massage material(s) are displayed or sold.
    9. Any owner and/or operator that allows continuing violations of the rules and regulations of the Blount County Health Department.
    10. Any owner and/or operator who fail to maintain the licensed premises in a clean, sanitary and safe condition.
    11. Any minor is found to be loitering about of frequenting the premises.
  2. The city manager and/or city recorder, before revoking or suspending any license or permit, shall give the owner and/or operator, technician and/or employee at least ten (10) days written notice of the charges against him and/or her and the opportunity for a public hearing before the city commission, at which time the owner and/or operator, technician and/or employee may present evidence bearing upon the question. In such cases, the charges shall be specific and in writing.
  3. The transfer of a license or any interest in a license shall automatically and immediately revoke the license. The transfer of any interest in a non-individual owner and/or operator's license shall automatically and immediately revoke the license held by such owner and/or operator. Such license shall thereby become null and void.
  4. Any owner and/or operator, technician or employee whose license or permit is revoked shall not be eligible to receive a license or permit for ten (10) years from the date of revocation. No location or premises for which a license has been issued shall be used as a massage parlor for ten (10) years from the date of revocation of the license. (as added by Ord. #120904-2, Jan. 2005)