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PART I - GENERAL ORDINANCES 6 <br />Chapter 8 - BUSINESSES <br />ARTICLE II. - MASSAGES AND MASSAGE ESTABLISHMENTS <br />(2) The licensee, or any agent of the licensee, employs or permits to be on the premises of the <br />applicant's massage business any person practicing the business or profession of massage who <br />has not been issued a privilege license required by Section 8 -33 or whose license under Section <br />8 -33 has been revoked; <br />(3) The licensee, or the legal or beneficial owner of any interest in the licensee, is, after the <br />license under this section is issued, convicted of any crime listed in subsection 8- 33(b)(3); <br />(4) Any employee of the licensee is, after the license under this section is issued, convicted of <br />any crime listed in subsection 8- 33(b)(3); <br />(5) The licensee violates any zoning, building or fire prevention ordinance; or <br />(6) The licensee is guilty of fraudulent, false, misleading or deceptive advertising, including the <br />use of the term "massage" to describe, promote or advertise any type of business activity or <br />service prohibited by this article or is not massage as defined in this article. <br />(g) A license issued pursuant to this section shall be revoked by the Sheriff if the licensee ceases for <br />30 consecutive days operating a massage business at the location required to be stated in the <br />application for license pursuant to subsection 8- 33(b)(2). <br />(h) Any person whose application for a license is denied by the Sheriff pursuant to subsection 8- <br />33(b)(d) of this section or revoked pursuant to subsection 8 -33(f) or subsection 8 -33(g) of this section <br />may appeal such decision to the Board of County Commissioners. An appeal is taken by filing written <br />notice of such appeal with the Clerk to the Board of County Commissioners within ten days following <br />the date of the decision. The Board of Commissioners shall set the appeal for hearing in the manner <br />provided by Section 8 -37. The Board of County Commissioners may affirm, modify or reverse the <br />Sheriffs decision. <br />(Ord. of 11 -4 -1985, § 1 -3, eff. 11-4 -1985; Amend. of 3 -20 -1991, eff. 3 -20 -1991; Amend. of 8 -18 -2009, <br />eff. 8 -18 -2009) <br />Sec. 8 -34. - Licensing of massage practitioners. <br />(a) No person shall engage in the business or profession of massage unless such person shall have <br />first applied for and received the license provided by this section. A license issued pursuant to this <br />section is a privilege license issued to the applicant only and is not transferable. <br />(b) The application for the license required by this section shall be upon a form approved by the <br />Sheriff and shall be filed with the Sheriff. Such application shall be given under oath and shall contain <br />the following information: <br />(1) The name of the applicant, any aliases ever used by the applicant, the age, the sex, social <br />security number (optional) and past military identification number of the applicant; the residence <br />address of the applicant and the residence addresses of the applicant for the ten years preceding <br />the date of the application; <br />(2) A complete statement of the previous business or occupation of the applicant for the two <br />years immediately preceding the date of application, including any massage establishment <br />experience; <br />(3) A complete statement of all convictions of the applicant for any crime listed in subsection 8- <br />Page 4 of 9 Orange County, North. Carolina, Code of Ordinances <br />