Sec. 14.3-11. Operating requirements.

(a) Every portion of the massage parlor, including appliances and apparatus, shall be clean and operated in a sanitary condition.

(b) Price rates for all services shall be prominently posted in the reception area in a location available to all prospective customers.

(c) All employees and massage technicians shall be clean and wear clean, nontransparent outer garments.

(d) Clean and sanitary towels and linens shall be provided for each patron of the massage parlor. No common use of towels or linens shall be permitted.

(e) All walls, ceilings, floors, pools, showers, bathtubs, steam rooms and other physical facilities shall be kept in good repair and maintained in a clean and sanitary condition. Wet and dry heat rooms, steam or vapor rooms or cabinets, shower compartments and toilet rooms shall be thoroughly cleaned each day the business is in operation. Bathtubs shall be thoroughly cleaned after each use. When carpet is used on the floors, it shall be kept dry.

(f) Oils, creams, lotions or other preparations used in administering massages shall be kept in clean, closed containers or cabinets.

(g) Eating in the massage work areas shall not be permitted. Animals, except for seeing eye dogs, shall not be permitted in the massage work areas.

(h) Each massage technician shall wash his hands in hot running water using proper soap or disinfectant before administering a massage to each patron.

(I) Smoking shall not be permitted within the massage work areas.

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