Legal Documents of Rockford

Code of Rockford

Rockford
Title 9 : Business, Peddlers, Solicitors, etc.
Chapter 3 : Massage Parlors Massage Technicians And Other Massage Parlor Employees

9-318 : Individual health requirements for massage technicians.

No massage technician shall administer massage at a massage parlor who does not comply with the following individual health requirements:

  1. No massage technician shall administer massage if such massage technician knows or should know that he and/or she is not free of any contagious or communicable disease.
  2. No massage technician shall administer a massage to a patron exhibiting any skin fungus, skin infection, skin inflammation, or skin eruption; provided that a physician duly licensed in the State of Tennessee may certify that such person may be safely massaged, and prescribing the conditions thereof.
  3. Each massage technician shall wash his and/or her hands in hot running water, using proper soap and/or disinfectant before administering a massage to each new person. (as added by Ord. #120904-2, Jan. 2005)