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ATTY/ORD.412/MASSAGE ORDINANCE <br />REV: 09-23-15 PT <br />Page 3 of 20 <br />4600 et seq. by Senate Bill 731, and amended in 2011 by Assembly Bill 619 and in 2014 <br />by Assembly Bill 1147, to restrict the commercial practice of massage in the City to those <br />persons duly certified to practice by the California Massage Therapy Council, and to <br />provide for the registration and regulation of massage businesses for health and safety <br />purposes to the extent allowed by law. <br />Sec. 18A.2. DEFINITIONS: <br /> For the purposes of this chapter, unless the particular provision or the context <br />otherwise clearly requires, the definitions in this section shall govern the construction, <br />meaning, and application of words and phrases used in this chapter: <br />A. “Business” includes, but not by way of limitation, everything about which a <br />person can be employed, and means that which occupies the time, attention, and labor <br />of men and women for the purpose of producing a livelihood or profit, and connotes the <br />efforts of men and women by varied and diverse methods of dealing with each other, to <br />improve their individual economic conditions, and for the purposes of this chapter shall <br />include, without limitation, the advertising and soliciting of massages. The term “business” <br />includes, but is not limited to, a massage practitioner who is the sole owner, operator and <br />employee of a massage business operating as a sole proprietorship, as well as a <br />massage establishment which employs massage practitioners and therapists. <br />B. “California Massage Therapy Council” or “CAMTC” means the Massage <br />Therapy Organization formed pursuant to Business and Professions Code section <br />4600.5. <br />C. “Certified Massage Practitioner” means any individual certified by the <br />California Massage Therapy Council as a Certified Massage Therapist or as a Certified <br />Massage Practitioner pursuant to California Business and Professions Code sections <br />4600 et seq. <br />D. “Client” means the customer or patron who pays for or receives massage <br />services. <br />E. “City” means the City of Redwood City. <br />F. “City Manager” means the City Manager of the City of Redwood City or his <br />or her authorized representatives or designees. <br />6.4.A. - Page 7