ORD-2012-024 Amendment to the Orange County Code of Ordinance Regarding Massage Regulations

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