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human trafficking and related illegal activities carried on under the guise of massage therapy, and
<br /> establishing sanitation, health, and operational standards for massage businesses.
<br /> B. Furthermore, it is the purpose and intent of this Chapter to address the negative impacts
<br /> identified in the City Council's findings, reduce or prevent neighborhood blight and protect and
<br /> preserve the quality of City neighborhoods and commercial districts, and enhance enforcement
<br /> of criminal statutes relating to the unlawful conduct of operators, employees, independent
<br /> contractors, and others associated with massage businesses.
<br /> C. It is the Council's further purpose and intent to rely upon the uniform statewide regulations
<br /> applicable to massage practitioners and massage businesses that were enacted by the State
<br /> Legislature in 2008 as California Business and Professions Code sections 4600 et seq. by Senate
<br /> Bill 731, and amended in 2011 by Assembly Bill 619, in 2014 by Assembly Bill 1147, in 2016 by
<br /> Assembly Bill 2194, and in 2017 by Senate Bills 314 and 315 to restrict the commercial practice
<br /> of massage in the City to those persons certified to practice by the California Massage Therapy
<br /> Council, and to provide for the registration and regulation of massage businesses for health and
<br /> safety purposes to the extent allowed by law.
<br /> D. It is the Council's further purpose and intent to rely upon the City's regulations applicable to
<br /> those persons who, as of the effective date of this Ordinance, hold massage technician permits
<br /> issued by the City, and within two years, by when all of these massage technician permits expire,
<br /> the only persons practicing massage in Pleasanton will be those certified by the California
<br /> Massage Therapy Council.
<br /> 6.24.020 DEFINITIONS. For the purposes of this Chapter, the following words, terms and
<br /> phrases are defined as follows:
<br /> A. "Applicant" means any person applying for registration from the City, including the
<br /> following persons: the responsible managing officer; managing employee, a general partner; a
<br /> limited partner; a shareholder; a sole proprietor; or any person who has five (5) percent or greater
<br /> ownership interest in a massage business whether as a person, corporate entity, limited partner,
<br /> shareholder or sole proprietor.
<br /> B. "California Massage Therapy Council" or "CAMTC" means the California Massage
<br /> Therapy Council formed pursuant to California Business and Professions Code Chapter 10.5
<br /> (Massage Therapy Act).
<br /> C. "Certified Massage Practitioner," means any person certified by the California Massage
<br /> Therapy Council as a massage therapist under California Business and Professions Code section
<br /> 4604 or as a massage practitioner under California Business and Professions Code section
<br /> 4604.2.
<br /> D. "City Manager" means the City Manager or the City Manager's designee.
<br /> E. "City Registration Permit" means the permit, as required by this Chapter, for a massage
<br /> business to offer massage in exchange for compensation.
<br /> F. "Client" means the customer or patron who is going to receive or receives a massage in
<br /> exchange for compensation.
<br /> G. "Compensation" means any payment, loan, advance, donation, contribution, deposit,
<br /> exchange, gift of money, or anything of value.
<br /> H. "Directly Illuminated Signs" means signs designed to give artificial light directly, or through
<br /> transparent or translucent material, from a source of light within the sign, including, but not limited
<br /> to, neon and exposed lamp signs.
<br /> I. "Employee" means any person, owner, operator, manager, supervisor, administrator or
<br /> worker who renders services of any nature in the operation of a massage business.
<br /> J. "Independent Contractor" means any person with whom a massage business has entered
<br /> into a contract by which the person may render services to the massage business, and who, as
<br /> a result, receives compensation.
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