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ATTY/ORD.412/MASSAGE ORDINANCE <br />REV: 09-23-15 PT <br />Page 2 of 20 <br />E. The presence of businesses known or reputed to be places of prostitution <br />or other illegal activity can have an adverse impact on surrounding properties and result <br />in blight, foster further illegal activities, and generally become a public nuisance. <br />Section 2. Chapter 18A (Massage Services) of the Redwood City Municipal <br />Code, as presently written, is hereby repealed. <br />Section 3. New Chapter 18A (Regulation of Massage Businesses) of the <br />Redwood City Municipal Code is adopted, to read as follows: <br /> <br />CHAPTER 18A (REGULATION OF MASSAGE BUSINESSES) <br /> <br />ARTICLE I. GENERAL <br /> <br />Sec. 18A.1. PURPOSE AND INTENT: <br />A. In enacting this chapter, the City Council recognizes that commercial <br />massage therapy is a professional pursuit which can offer the public valuable health and <br />therapeutic services. The City Council further recognizes that, unless properly regulated, <br />the practice of massage therapy and the operation of massage businesses may be <br />associated with unlawful activity and pose a threat to the quality of life in the local <br />community. Accordingly, it is the purpose and intent of this chapter to protect the public <br />health, safety, and welfare by providing for the orderly regulation of businesses providing <br />massage therapy services, discouraging prostitution and related illegal activities carried <br />on under the guise of massage therapy, and establishing certain sanitation, health, and <br />operational standards for massage businesses. <br />B. Furthermore, it is the purpose and intent of this chapter to address the <br />negative impacts identified in the City Council’s findings to reduce or prevent <br />neighborhood blight and to protect and preserve the quality of City neighborhoods and <br />commercial districts; and to enhance enforcement of criminal statutes relating to the <br />conduct of operators and employees of massage businesses. <br />C. It is the Council’s further purpose and intent to rely upon the uniform <br />statewide regulations applicable to massage practitioners and establishments that were <br />enacted by the State Legislature in 2008 as Business and Professions Code sections <br />6.4.A. - Page 6