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A. Any application for a license to operate a massage establishment shall be made with the chief of police. Within thirty working days following receipt of a completed application, the chief of police shall either issue the license or deny the application with a written statement of the reasons for the denial.

B. The application shall set forth the following information:

1. The full name and present address of the applicant;

2. Any and all names the applicant has previously used or been known by;

3. The previous addresses of the applicant, if any, for the period of three years immediately prior to the date of the application and the dates of the residence at each;

4. Written proof that the applicant is at least eighteen years of age;

5. Applicant’s height, weight, color of eyes and hair;

6. Two recent color passport size photographs of the applicant taken within ninety days prior to the date of application;

7. Business, occupation or employment history of the applicant for the three years immediately preceding the date of application;

8. If the applicant is a corporation, the name of the corporation shall be set forth exactly as shown in its articles of corporation, together with the names and residence addresses of each of its officers, directors, and each stockholder holding more than five percent of the stock of the corporation. If the applicant is a partnership, the application shall set forth the name and residence address of each of the partners, including limited partners. If one or more of the partners is a corporation, the provisions of this section pertaining to a corporate application shall apply;

9. The business license history of the applicant, including whether such person previously operating in this or another city or state under license, has had such license suspended or revoked, the reason therefor and the business, activity or occupation subsequent to such action of suspension or revocation;

10. The exact nature of the massage, bath or health treatment to be administered;

11. The proposed place of business;

12. All criminal convictions;

13. Whether the applicant is required to register under the provisions of Section 290 of the California Penal Code;

14. Whether the applicant, including a corporation or partnership, or a former employer of the applicant while still employed, or a building in which the applicant was so employed or a business conducted, was ever subjected to an abatement proceeding under Sections 11225 – 11235 of the California Penal Code, or any similar provisions of law under a jurisdiction outside the state, and the date(s) thereof;

15. The names, dates of birth, the residence addresses of all persons currently employed or intended to be employed in the massage establishment, regardless of the nature of their employment, along with a description of the proposed or actual nature of the work performed or to be performed, and recent color passport size photographs, acceptable to the chief of police, or designated representative processing the application, of each such employee. The chief of police may require any such employee to allow fingerprints to be taken for the purpose of identification. The applicant shall notify the city in writing of the names, addresses and nature of the work, of any new employees, within five days of such employment, and provide the photographs described in this subsection. Such new employees shall allow fingerprints to be taken for the purpose of identification upon request. “Employee” includes every owner, partner, manager, supervisor and worker, whether paid or not, who renders personal services of any nature in the operation of a massage establishment;

16. Such other identification and information the police department may require in order to verify information in the application;

17. Nothing herein shall be construed to deny the chief of police or the police department the right to take fingerprints and additional photographs of the applicant, nor shall anything contained herein be construed to deny the right of the chief or the department to confirm the height, weight or date of birth of the applicant. (Ord. 1002 § 1 (part), 1984: prior code § 4908)