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12/12/2011 chapter, without first obtaining State Certification and a City Certificate of Registration, or who shall violate any provision of this chapter, shall be guilty of an infraction. B. Any owner, licensee, manager, or Registered Certificate Holder in charge or in control of a massage business or Certified Massage Business or Certified Sole Proprietorship who knowingly employs a person who is not in possession of a valid, unrevoked Certificate of Registration, or who allows such persons to perform, operate, or practice within such a place of business, shall be guilty of an infraction. C. Anyone found to have violated any provision set forth herein shall be guilty of an infraction and anyone found to have violated any provision set forth herein more than three times in a twelve month period shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; however the City Attorney may reduce the penalty to an infraction. The penalties for such violations are as set forth in Section 1.7 of Chapter 1 of the Municipal Code. Section 5. This ordinance is categorically exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act pursuant because it is not a project and there is no possibility that the ordinance may have a significant effect on the environment. Section 6. If any section, subsection, clause or phrase of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portion or sections of the Ordinance. The City Council of the City of Redwood City hereby declares that it should have adopted the Ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases may be declared unconstitutional. Section 7. This ordinance repealing existing Chapter 18A and enacting new Chapter 18A pertaining to massage services shall take effect and be in force 30 days after its adoption. However, the effective date for purposes of repealing the City's current provisions contained in existing Chapter 18A regulating massage services and discontinuing the application of those provisions shall be July 1, 2012, and the effective date for purposes of new Chapter 18A and applying the provisions contained therein for regulating massage services shall be July 1, 2012. Section 8. This ordinance shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2016, or such other time as may be established thereafter by Cal. Business & Profession Code § 4620, and following. Section 9. The City Clerk shall publish this Ordinance according to law. 18 ATTY/ORD.359/MASSAGE ORD.#2372 102811 MUFF#305