Ord. 0135 1967-07-27CITY OF PEARLAND
CITY HALL HU 5-1457
P. D. BOX 1 5 7
PEARLAND, TEXAS.775B1
The Pearland Progress
Pearland, Texas
Gentlemen:
Please publish one time the following caption
Ordinance No. 135
AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE OPERATION OF MASSAGE AND
IURKISH BATH ESTABLISHMENTS IN THE CITY OF PEARLAND,
TEXAS: PROVIDING FOR LICENSE: PROVIDING FOR HEALTH
CARD REQUIREMENTS: PROVIDING FOR FEE:: PROVIDING
FOR Tit, OPERATION AND WHO SHALL BE EMPLOYEES: PROVIDING
FOR THE SANITATION AND CLEANLINESS AND PROVIDING FOR VIOLATION
OF THIS ORDINANCE AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY BE.HEREBY
ADOPTED.
Passed and approved this the 27 day of July, 1967.
Attest:
s/ W. A. McClellan,
City Secretary
Lloyd C. Hawkins
Mayor
Yours very truly,
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W. A. McClellan,
City Secretary
term shall
shops duly
Texas.
')ORDINANCE NO.~
AN ORDINANcE REGULATING THE OPERATION
TURKISH BATH ESTABLIsRMENTs OF MASSAGE AND
TEXAs: PROVIDING FOR IN THE CITy OF
CARD REQUIRE . LICENSE; PROv _PEARLAND~
MENTs. p IDING FO
THE OP~ ..... ROVIDING FOb .... N HEALTH
~w~zUNAND WHO S~ar~T ~ ~ ~: PROVIDING FO
FOR SANITATION AND CLEANLINESS AND PROVIDING FOR
VIOLATION OF THIS ORDINANCE: ~uYEEs: PROVIDING
BE HEREBY ADOPTED. ~D DECLARING AN E~ERGENCy
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITy COUNCIL OF THE CITy OF PEARLAND~
TEXAs:
SECTION~ Definitions.
(a) Massage establishment is hereby defined to
mean any building, room, place or establishment other than
regularly licensed hospital where manipulated massage or
manipulated exercises are practiced Upon the human body for
compensation by anyone not a duly licensed physician, whether
with or' without the use of mechanical therapeutic or bath-
ing devices, and shall include Turkish bath houses. This
not include, however, beauty parlors or barber-
licensed under the Penal Code of the State of
(b) Massage shall m~a~ and include any process con-
sisting in kneading, rubbing or otherwises manipulating the
skin of the body of a human bezng, either with the hand, or
by means of electrical instruments or apparatus, or other
special apparatus, but shall not include massage by duly
licensed physicians~ nor massage of the face practiced by
At the time of making application for such license,
the applicant shall state whether the massage establishment
shall accommodate male or
shall only be issued upon
Director of Public Health
female patrons. Such license
the approval in writing of the
and the Chief of Police, and a
certificate of occupancy from the Building Inspector, and
shall indicate whether the massage establishment accommodates
male or female patrons.
SECTION 3: Fee, proration.
The annual license fee shall be .~_~ ~
Dollars for each such establishment. If such license is
obtained between January first and June thirtien%h of any
year, the full amount of such fee shall be paid. No refund
shall ever be made of any such license fees.
SECTION 4: Revocation.
Any ~icense issued hereunder may be revoked by
the chief of police or the director of public health for
a violation of' this article or any ordinance of the city
or any law of the State of Texas by the licensee. Revoca-
tion shall be effected by written notice to the licensee.
SECTION 5: Health card required of employees.
At the
applicant shall
and
time of making application for such licenses,
furnish to the health department the names
addresses of all employees of such establishment and
sexes;
SECTION 7: Establishment not to accommodate both
advertising to indicate sex of patrons.
It shall be unlawful for any massage
establish-
ment to accommodate both male and female patrons. Any
massage establishment that advertises its services shall
clearly indicate in all advertising whether it accommodates
male or female patrons.
SECTION 8:. Employing prostitutes, vagrants, immoral
characters.
It shall be unlawful for any person operating
such an establishment to employ a known prositute in any
capacity therein. The Chief of Police shall refuse to
approve the issuance of a license to any establishment
which employes any person convicted of any crime involving
moral turpitude in any state, municipal or federal court,
or which employes a woman who has been convicted of vagrancy
or prostitution, or who is a known prostitute. The Chief
of Police shall refuse to approve the issuance of a license
to any massage establishment ~hich accommodates both male
and female patrons, or to any massage establishment in which
persons of one sex massage persons of the opposite sex.
SECTION 9: Closing hours; use as sleeping quarters.
No Turkish bath or massage establishment shall be
kept open for any purpose between the hours of ten o'clock
of all employees, both on duty and
list shall be shown to all proper
police and health department upon
cense required herein shall be exhibited
in such establishments.
SECTION 11: Sanitation,
equipment;
or operating
off duty, and such
authorities of the
request, and the li~
at all times
cleanliness; sterilizing
washing hands; employing persons with disease.
It shall be the duty of every person conducting
a Turkish bath or massage establishment to
keep the same at all times in a clean and sanitary condi-
tion. Ail instruments and mechanical, therapeutic, and
bathing devices or parts thereof that come into contact
with the human body shall be sterilized by a modern and
approved method of sterilization, before initial use, and
any such instruments and devices or parts thereof, after
having been used upon one patron, shall be sterilized be-
fore being used upon another. All .>towels and linens fur-
nished for use of one patro~hall not be furnished for
use of another until thoroughly laundered.
All masseurs and operators shall wash their hands
thoroughly before administering massage manipulations to
each patron accommodated. No person suffering from a
communicable disease shall work or be employed in a massage
establishment. No person suffering from a conununicable
for the acts of their employees in the conduct of such
business.
SECTION 13: Any person violating any provision
of this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor
and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not exceed-
lng TWO HUNDRED($200.00)DOLLARS.
PASSED AND APPROVED this the ~--~ day of
/
, A.D. 1967.
CITY OF PEARLAND~ TEXAS
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:ATTEST:
[ ~ C~t~.Secretary