Sec. 14.3-12. Health requirements for operators and technicians; serving patrons with skin infections.

(a) No massage parlor operator or massage technician shall give massage or come in contact with a patron of any massage parlor unless such operator or massage technician shall be free of any contagious or communicable disease. The director or his designee may, for cause, require that an operator or massage technician not be allowed to give massage unless and until any such person provides him with a certificate from a medical doctor duly licensed and practicing in the Commonwealth of Virginia that such person has been examined within the previous ten (10) days and found to be free of all contagious or communicable disease.

(b) No massage technician shall knowingly serve any patron infected with any fungus or other skin infection; nor shall service be performed on any patron exhibiting skin inflammation or eruptions; provided, however, that a duly licensed physician may certify that any such patron may be safely served prescribing the conditions thereof.

(c) All massage technicians shall undergo a physical examination for contagious and communicable diseases and shall furnish to the director a certificate based upon said examination, issued with thirty (30) day thereof, and signed by a physician duly licensed by the Commonwealth of Virginia stating that the person examined is either free from any contagious or communicable disease or incapable of communicating any of such disease to others prior to the commencement of employment and at least once every year thereafter.

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