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10/26/2015 <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 Code, as presently written, is hereby repealed.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 /> CHAPTER 18A (REGULATION OF MASSAGE BUSINESSES) <br /> ARTICLE I. GENERAL <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 /> ATTY/ORD.412/MASSAGE ORDINANCE ORD. 2415 <br /> REV:09-23-15 PT FORMERLY MUFF#301 <br /> Page 2 of 20 <br />