§ 11-10. Minimum standards for massage parlors, massage schools, and bathhouses.

No massage parlor, massage school, or bathhouse shall be operated, maintained, established or conducted within the corporate limits of the City of Cocoa Beach unless said massage parlor, massage school, or bathhouse shall comply with the following:

(1)

The premises shall have adequate equipment for disinfecting and sterilizing nondisposable instruments and materials used in administering massages or baths. Such nondisposable instruments and materials shall be disinfected and sterilized after use on each patron.

(2)

Closed cabinets shall be provided and used for the storage of clean linen, towels, and other materials used in connection with administering massages or baths. All soiled linens, towels and other materials shall be kept in properly covered containers or cabinets, which containers or cabinets shall be kept separate from the clean storage areas.

(3)

Clean linen and towels shall be provided for each patron. No common use of towels or linens shall be permitted.

(4)

All massage parlor, massage school, or bathhouse tables, bathtubs, shower stalls, steam or bath areas and floors shall have surfaces which may be readily disinfected.

(5)

Adequate bathing, dressing, locker and toilet facilities shall be provided for the number of patrons to be served at any given time. In the event male and female patrons are to be served simultaneously, separate bathing, dressing, locker, toilet and massage room facilities shall be provided. Separate toilet and lavatory facilities shall be maintained for personnel. Doors to all dressing rooms shall be self-closing.

(6)

All walls, ceilings, floors, pools, showers, bathtubs, steam rooms and all other physical facilities shall be in good repair and maintained in a clean and sanitary condition. Wet and dry heat rooms, steam or vapor rooms, or steam or vapor cabinets, shower compartments and toilet rooms shall be thoroughly cleaned each day the business is in operation. Bathtubs and showers shall be thoroughly cleaned after each use. When carpeting is used on floors, it shall be kept dry.

(7)

The premises shall be equipped with a service tank for custodial services.

(8)

The eating of food or the consuming of alcoholic beverages in the massage or bath work areas shall not be permitted.

(9)

Animals, except Seeing Eye dogs, shall not be permitted in the massage or bath work areas.

(10)

All employees and massage or bath technicians must wear clean outer garments in the nature of a surgical gown whose use shall be restricted to the massage parlor, massage school, or bathhouse, and, in addition, such employees and massage or bath technicians shall at all times during normal working hours at the massage parlor or bathhouse, conceal, with fully opaque covering, the sexual or genital parts of his or her body.

(11)

All services enumerated in sections 11-5(1) and 11-5(6) of this chapter must be rendered or carried on in one work area devoted to massages and another when applicable devoted to baths; there shall be no separate or individual cubicles, rooms, booths or areas set apart for private massages or baths except that, in the event that male and female patrons are to be served simultaneously, two (2) separate work areas shall be set apart for male and female patrons. No service enumerated in sections 11-5(1) or 11-5(6) of this chapter may be rendered or carried on in a work area in such a manner or condition that it is not readily visible at all times from any place within the same work area.

(12)

The sexual or genital parts of patrons must be covered at all times by towels, cloths, robes, undergarments, swim trunks, swimsuits, or other similar fully opaque materials while in the presence of an employee or massage or bath technician.

(Ord. No. 522, § 1, 3-17-1977)