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PART I - GENERAL ORDINANCES 4 <br />Chapter 8 - BUSINESSES <br />ARTICLE 11. - MASSAGES AND MASSAGE ESTABLISHMENTS <br />safety, welfare and morals, the following privilege license provisions and regulations are ordained for <br />the privilege of carrying on the business, trade, or profession of massage practitioner and for the <br />operation or carrying on of the businesses, trades, or professions commonly known as massage clinic, <br />massage parlor, health salon, health club, physical culture studio, or similar establishment wherein <br />massage or physical manipulation of the human body is carried on or practiced. <br />(b) The provisions of this Ordinance shall not apply to: <br />(1) Regularly established and licensed hospital, sanitarium, nursing home, nor to an office or <br />clinic operated and regularly used by a duly licensed physician, surgeon, osteopath, chiropractor, <br />physical therapist or podiatrist in connection with the practice of medicine, chiropractor, <br />osteopathy, physical therapy or podiatry; <br />(2) Physicians, surgeons, chiropractors, osteopaths, physical therapists or podiatrists duly <br />licensed by the State of North Carolina; <br />(3) Registered or practical nurses duly licensed by the State of North Carolina working under the <br />supervision of a licensed physician, chiropractor, osteopath or podiatrist; <br />(4) Cosmetologist, barbers or beauty culturists duly licensed by the State of North Carolina who <br />do not give, or hold themselves out to give massages other than are customarily given in barber <br />shops and beauty shops solely for the purpose of beautification. <br />(Ord. of 11 -4 -1985, § 1 -2, eff. 11-4 -1985) <br />Sec. 8 -33. - Licensing of massage business operators <br />(a) No person shall operate a massage business unless such person shall have first applied for and <br />received the license provided by this section. A license issued pursuant to this section is a privilege <br />license issued under the authority of the Orange County Board of County Commissioners by the <br />Orange County Sheriff to the applicant only and is not transferable. <br />(b) Every application for the privilege license prescribed in this section shall be upon a form approved <br />by the Orange County Sheriff and shall be filed with the Orange County Sheriff. Every such application <br />shall be made under oath and shall contain the following information: <br />(1) If the applicant is: <br />a. A person, the name of the applicant, any aliases ever used by the applicant, the age, <br />the sex, social security number (optional) and past military identification number of the <br />applicant; the residence address of the applicant and the residence addresses of the <br />applicant for the ten years preceding the date of the application. <br />b. A partnership, corporation or association, the name, any aliases ever used, sex, social <br />security number (optional) and past military identification number, the residence address and <br />the residence addresses for the ten years preceding the date of the application regarding <br />each person having any legal or beneficial interest in such applicant. <br />(2) The address of the premises where the massage business shall be located; <br />(3) A complete statement of all convictions of any person whose name is required to be given in <br />subsection 8- 33(b), any federal statute relating to prostitution, or any law or ordinance of any <br />Orange County, North Carolina, Code of Ordinances <br />Page 2 of 9 <br />