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ORDINANCE NO. 1697
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH
• AMENDING SECTION 5.50.050 OF THE NEWPORT
BEACH MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO THE APPLICA-
TION FOR A MASSAGE PERMIT
The City Council of the City of Newport Beach
DOES ORDAIN as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 5.50.050 of the Newport Beach
Municipal Code is amended in its entirety to read as follows:
"5.50.050. Application; Contents. Any applicant
for a permit shall submit the following information:
(a) The full name and present address of the
applicant;
(b) The two previous addresses immediately prior
to the present address of applicant;
(c) Written statements of at least five (5) bona
• fide residents
of the
City
of Newport Beach that the
applicant is of
good
moral
character;
(d) Written proof that the applicant is over the
age of eighteen (18) years;
(e) Applicants' height, weight, color of eyes and
hair;
(f) Two portrait photographs at least 2 inches
by 2 inches;
(g) Business, occupation, or employment of the
applicant for the three (3) years immediately preceding
the date of the application;
(h) The massage or similar business license history
of the applicant whether such person, in previously
operating in this or another city or state under license,
• has had such license revoked or suspended, the reason
therefor, and the business activity or occupation subsequent
to such action of suspension or revocation;
(i) All convictions and the reasons therefor;
(j) Applicants for a permit to be a massage
technician shall submit a certificate from a medical
• doctor stating that the applicant has within thirty
days immediately prior thereto, been examined and found
to be free of any contagious or communicable disease;
(k) Applicants for a permit to be a massage
technician shall furnish a diploma or certificate of
graduation from a recognized school or other institution
of learning wherein the method, profession and work of
a massage technician is taught. The term "recognized
school" shall mean and include any school or institution
of learning which has for its purpose the teaching of the
theory, method, profession, or work of massage technician,
which school requires a resident course of study of not
less than two hundred (200) hours to be given and not
less than three (3) calendar months before the student
• shall be furnished with a diploma or certificate of
graduation from such school or institution of learning
showing the successful completion of such course of study
or learning.
Schools offering a correspondence course not
requiring actual attendance of class shall not be deemed
a "recognized school ". The City of Newport Beach shall
have a right to confirm the fact that the applicant has
actually attended classes in a recognized school for the
aforementioned minimum time periods by requiring the applicant
to submit to a written examination in the field of massage
techniques.
In lieu of the foregoing education requirement
an applicant may submit written proof that he or she has
actually been engaged in practice as a massage technician
• for not less than one (1) year in the City of Newport
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Beach, or five (5) years elsewhere, preceding the date
of application and shall successfully pass a written
examination in massage techniques to be administered by
the City.
In lieu of the foregoing educational require-
ments for experience requirements, the applicant may be
permitted to learn the method, profession of work of a
massage technician under the strict supervision of an
instructor from a recognized school or other institution
of learning as set forth above, provided the training is
completed within four (4) months after the initial train-
ing period commences and that a certificate is presented
to the City showing successful completion of the program
within ten (10) days after completing the program.
(1) Such other identification and information
necessary to discover the truth of the matters hereinbefore
specified as required to be set forth in the application.
(m) Nothing contained herein shall be construed
to deny to the Police Department of the City of Newport
Beach the right to take the fingerprints and additional
photographs of the applicant, nor shall anything contained
herein be construed to deny the right of said department
to confirm the height and weight of the applicant.
SECTION 2. This Ordinance shall be published once
in the official newspaper of the City, and the same shall be
effective thirty (30) days after the date of its adoption.
This Ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting
of the City Council of the City of Newport Beach held on the
12th day of October , 1976, and was adopted on the 26th
day of October , 1976, by the following vote, to wit:
77 AND
OCT 2 8 1976
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CITY Q'h G7 TH_ CPiY CF
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ATTEST:
ity Clerk
AYES, COUNCILMEN:Dostal, Barrett, Kuehn,
McInnis. Rogers, Rvckoff. Williams
NOES, COUNCILMEN: None
AB D- C UNCILMEN:None
4Aaeyror
HRC:yz
9/28/76