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10/26/2015 <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 inen and women for the purpose of producing a livelihood or profit, and connotes the <br /> efforts of inen 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 /> ATTY/ORD.412/MASSAGE ORDINANCE ORD. 2415 <br /> REV:09-23-15 PT FORMERLY MUFF#301 <br /> Page 3 of 20 <br />