Legal Documents of Sweetwater

Code of Sweetwater

Sweetwater
Title 9 : Business, Peddlers, Solicitors, etc.
Chapter 5 : Massage Parlors And Technicians

9-503 : Same--application; renewals; fees.

  1. Any person desiring a massage parlor permit to establish, maintain or operate a massage parlor in the city shall make application to the city recorder. Each massage parlor permit application shall be accompanied by an investigation fee of one hundred dollars ($100.00), payable to the city recorder. Each massage parlor permit shall expire one year from the date of issuance. Each renewal application shall be accompanied by an investigation fee of fifty dollars ($50.00). Each such application shall contain the name, address and telephone number of the place where the applicant proposes to operate, maintain or establish a massage parlor in the city.
  2. In addition, such application shall include a sworn statement as to whether or not the applicant (if the applicant is a partnership or association, any partner or member thereof, or if the applicant is a corporation, any officer, director or manager thereof, or any shareholder) has been convicted, pleaded nolo contendere, or suffered a forfeiture, a charge of violating any law relating to sexual offenses, prostitution, obscenity, etc., or any provision of this chapter, or on a charge of violating a similar law or ordinance in any other jurisdiction.
  3. The application shall state thereon that: "It is unlawful for any person to make a false statement on this application, and discovery of a false statement shall constitute grounds for denial of an application or revocation of a permit."
  4. Each applicant shall have his fingerprints taken, which fingerprints shall constitute part of the application.
  5. A photograph of the applicant taken within sixty (60) days immediately prior to the date of application, which picture shall be not less than two (2) inches by two (2) inches showing the head and shoulders of the applicant in a clear and distinguishable manner, shall be filed with the application.
Date Last Updated: 08/05/2024
Codification Date: 03/01/2004

Officials at Date of Last Codification:

Mayor - Doyle F. Lowe
Vice Mayor - Sam Moser
Commissioner - Lamar Hughes
Commissioner - Johanna Jinks
Commissioner - Alan Richeson
Commissioner - James A. Stutts
Recorder - Sonya Crush
City Attorney - John Cleveland