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A. Applications for massage business, reflexology business, massage business employee, and reflexology business employee licenses shall be made to the city’s finance department on forms provided by the police department. Each application for a massage business or reflexology business license shall be accompanied by a nonrefundable fee of $50.00.

B. Each application for a massage business employee or reflexology business employee license shall be accompanied by a nonrefundable fee of $20.00. Each application for a massage business employee or reflexology business employee license shall fully describe the applicant’s name, business address, location of premises upon which the massage business or reflexology business will be operated, and the name, address and previous occupation of the person or persons who shall manage the massage business or reflexology business. If the applicant is a corporation, the application shall contain names, addresses and occupations of the applicant’s officers and principal shareholders. Each application for a massage business employee or reflexology business employee license shall fully describe the applicant’s name, home address, previous occupation, and previous employer. Every person whose name appears on an application shall provide all assumed names or aliases which have been or are used by such person.

C. Upon the filing of any application for a massage business or reflexology business license, the finance department shall promptly provide copies thereof to the chief of police and the community development director. Within ten days after receiving the same, the chief of police shall notify the finance department of whether or not the applicant, the massage business or reflexology business manager, and (if the applicant be a corporation) the corporation’s officers and the principal shareholders, or any of the foregoing, have been convicted of violating federal, state or local laws relating to sexual offenses, or to possession, use or sale of narcotics or alcoholic beverages. If records available to the chief of police indicate that any such person has been so convicted, the finance department shall notify the applicant, by registered letter, that the application has been denied. Within ten days after receiving a copy of the application, the community development director shall notify the finance department that the premises upon which the massage business or reflexology business operation shall be conducted are or are not located on property which, under provisions of the city zoning code, can be put to such a use. If the premises are not so located, the finance department shall notify the applicant, by registered letter, that the application has been denied.

D. Any citizen or public officer may, while an application for a massage business or reflexology business license is pending, petition the city council to deny the license. If the petition fails to set forth in detail alleged facts tending to show that issuance of the license will harm the public health, safety or morals, the petition shall be summarily stricken by the council. If the petition does set forth such allegations, the mayor shall transmit copies of the petition to the finance department and to the applicant, and the council shall set a date for a public hearing, of which all interested parties shall be notified, at which the council shall receive evidence bearing on the question of whether issuance of the license will tend to harm the public health, safety or morals. At the conclusion of the hearing, or any continued hearing, the council shall decide whether or not the health, safety or morals of residents of the community may be harmed by issuance of the license. The council shall notify the finance department of its decision, and he shall issue or deny the license in accordance with the decision.

E. Any applicant whose application has been denied on information supplied to the finance department by the chief of police or community development director may, within ten days following notification of the denial, file a petition for a hearing before the city council. The council shall set a date of hearing of which all interested parties shall be notified, and shall receive evidence bearing on the accuracy of the information supplied to the finance department. If the council determines that the information was substantially inaccurate, and that the public health, safety or morals will apparently not be harmed by issuance of the license, the council shall so notify the finance department, who shall thereupon issue the license.

F. Upon the filing of any application for a massage business or reflexology business employee license, the finance department shall promptly provide copies thereof to the chief of police and the Thurston County health director. Within ten days after receiving the same the chief of police shall notify the finance department that the applicant has or has not been convicted of violating federal, state or local laws relating to sexual offenses, or to possession, use or sale of narcotics or alcoholic beverages. If records available to the chief of police indicate that the applicant has been so convicted the finance department shall notify the applicant, by registered letter, that the application has been denied. Within ten days after filing the application, the applicant shall submit to a physical examination to determine whether the applicant is free from contagious or infectious disease. The health director shall report the results of the examination to the finance department, and if the examination indicates the applicant has a contagious or infectious disease, the finance department shall notify the applicant, by registered letter, that the application has been denied. Within ten days following notification of denial, the applicant may petition the city council for a hearing to determine the accuracy of the information upon which the denial was based, and the petition shall be processed in the manner prescribed for processing similar petitions of applicants for massage business and reflexology business licenses. (Ord. 1473 §5, 2015; Ord. 1262 §30, 2006; Ord. 86 §4, 1968).