Laguna Niguel Municipal Code Art. 1 Public Baths; Massage Parlors; Massagists

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Cross reference— Health and sanitation, tit. 6.

Every person applying for a public bath, massage parlor or massagist's license must have had at least five years' experience in the profession, work and method of treating the external parts of the human body for remedial or hygienic purposes by rubbing, stroking, kneading, adjusting or tapping with the hands or by instrument, or must have graduated from a recognized school of massage or other institution of learning wherein the method, profession and work of massaging is taught.

(Ord. No. 90-11, § 5, 3-6-90)

It shall be unlawful for any person employed as a massagist or in a massage parlor or public bath to massage any other person or give or administer any bath or to give or administer any of the other things mentioned in this article for immoral purposes or in a manner intended to arouse, appeal to or to gratify lust or passions or sexual desires.

(Ord. No. 90-11, § 5, 3-6-90)

Every person who maintains, conducts or operates a massage parlor or public bath, and every massagist, shall at all times keep a registration book in connection therewith in which each and every client's or patient's first, middle and last name and complete address shall be written, together with the date of treatment.

(Ord. No. 90-11, § 5, 3-6-90)

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to administer, for hire or reward, to any person of the opposite sex, any massage, any alcohol rub or similar treatment, any fomentation, any bath or any electric or magnetic treatment, or to do or administer any one or all of the other things or acts mentioned in this article, nor shall any person cause or permit in or about his place of business any agent, employee or servant or any other person under his control or supervision to administer any such treatment or service to any person of the opposite sex.

(b) This section shall not apply to any treatment administered in good faith in the course of the practice of any healing art or profession under the provisions of the Business and Professions Code of the state or of any other laws of this state.

(Ord. No. 90-11, § 5, 3-6-90)