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PART I - GENERAL ORDINANCES 10 <br />Chapter 8 - BUSINESSES, <br />ARTICLE II. - MASSAGES AND MASSAGE ESTABLISHMENTS <br />be $15.00. The annual privilege license fee for the second and subsequent years of continuous practice <br />of a massage practitioner shall be $10.00. A massage practitioner who is a sole practitioner and who is <br />not employed as a massage practitioner by a massage business operates a massage business and <br />shall be required to be licensed as both a massage business and a massage practitioner. However, <br />such a sole practitioner shall only be required to pay the privilege license fee prescribed herein for a <br />massage business. <br />(b) Fees for the licenses shall be due and payable in the same manner as prescribed for other <br />privilege license fees of Orange County pursuant to the license and privilege tax ordinance of the <br />County. <br />(Ord. of 11-4 -1985, § 1 -11, eff. 11-4 -1985) <br />Sec. 8-42. - Remedies. <br />(a) Violation of this Ordinance is a misdemeanor punishable as prescribed in N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14 -4. <br />(b) Injunctive Relief: <br />(1) Whenever the Sheriff has reasonable cause to believe that any person is violating or <br />threatening to violate this Ordinance or any rule or order adopted or issued pursuant to this <br />Ordinance, or any term, condition, or provision of a license issued pursuant to this Ordinance, it <br />may, either before or after the institution of any other action or proceeding authorized by this <br />Ordinance, institute a civil action in the name of Orange County for injunctive relief to restrain the <br />violation or threatened violation. <br />(2) Upon determination by a court that an alleged violation is occurring or is threatened, it shall <br />enter such orders or judgments as are necessary to abate the violation or to prevent the <br />threatened violation. The institution of an action for injunctive relief under this section shall not <br />relieve any party to such proceedings from any civil or criminal penalty prescribed for violation of <br />this Ordinance. <br />(Ord. of 11- 4- 1985, § 2 -1, eff. 11 -4 -1985) <br />Sec. 8 -43. - Severability. <br />If any provision of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by any court of <br />competent jurisdiction, such provision shall be deemed a separate, independent provision and such <br />holding shall not affect the validity of any other provision hereof, and to that end, the provisions of this <br />Ordinance are hereby declared to be severable. <br />(Ord. of 11-4 -1985, § 3 -1, eff. 11 -4 -1985) <br />Sec. 8-44. - Effective date. <br />This Ordinance shall be effective on November 4, 1985. Applicants for license under this Ordinance <br />shall have 60 days from its effective date to apply for a license. No massage business or massage <br />practitioner shall be deemed in violation of the licensing requirements of this Ordinance during the 60- <br />day period following the effective date of this Ordinance. No massage business or massage practitioner <br />that has made application for a license within 60 days of the effective date of this Ordinance .shall be <br />deemed in violation of this Ordinance during that license application process through the point in time of <br />the County Managers decision on the application. <br />Page 8 of 9 Orange County, North Carolina, Code of Ordinances <br />