Legal Documents of Sweetwater

For the purposes of this chapter the following phrases and words shall have the meaning assigned below, except in those instances where the context clearly indicates a different meaning.

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 the 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 paint or other colorant to any person.
2. "Massage parlors." Any premises, place of business, or membership club where there is conducted the business or activity of furnishing, providing or giving for a fee, or any other form of consideration, a massage, bath, body painting, or similar massage service or procedure. This definition shall not be construed to include a hospital, nursing home, medical clinic, or the 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.
3. "Massage technician." Any person who administers a massage to another at a massage parlor.