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HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrd. 0532ORDINANCE NO. 532 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF LYN~400D PROVIDING FOR PERMI4'S AND REGULATING THE CONDUCT OF MASSAGE PAR- LORS, STEAM BATAS, BUBBLE BATHS, TURKISH BATH5, SHOWER BATHS, AND OTHER HEALTH AND/OR BEAUTY BATHS OR SCHOOLS PERTAINING TO THE SAME.. U The City Council of the City of Lynwood does ordain as follows: Section 1: No person, firm, or corporation shall engage or ,v continue to be engaged in the business of conducting a massage parlor, steam bath, bubble,bath, turkish bath, shower bath, or other health and/or beauty baths or any school pertaining to the same or any school of massage or hydrotherapy without-first obtaining a special permit from the City Council and complying with the regulations of this ordinance. Section 2: Any person, firm, or corporation now or hereafter engaged in any of the businesses specified in Section 1 of this ordinance shall, in the case of existing businesses, within sixty (60) days follow- ing the adoption of this ordinance, and, shall, in the case of any auoh proposed business, before a business license is issued under Ordinance No. 418 of the City of Lynwood, file a written application for a special permit with the City Council of the City of Lynwood. Said amitten application shall be verified by the applicant and shall include the following information: A. Location of proposed bueineas'and facilities available. B. Residence of the applicant for the twelve (12) months pre- ceding the application and the business such applicant was engaged in for said twelve X12) months period. C. Such other information as the City Council may from time to time prescribe. The City Council shall refer any such application to the Chief oP Police and any other officer of the City of Lynwood, for investigation and recommendation. The City Council may set a time and place, upon public notice, of a hearing upon the matter of any such application. Such hearing shall be granted upon the demand of any applicant.. Section 3: A fee of ~-5.00 shall be required for the filing -1- of any such application. Permits, vrhen granted, shall not be transfer- able. Section ~: No permit shall be granted until all health and other regulations pertaining to such businesses of the City of Lynwood and State of California have been follozaed. Section 5: Any and all persons employed in any business mentioned in Section 1 hereof shall be required-to obtain an identifica- tion permit from the Police Department of the City of Lync~rood. Such em- _ ,, ployees shall maintain such identification permit on their person at all times when so employed. The Chief of Police is authorized and empowered to require any such employee to file identification statements which shall include name, age, and previous residence of any such employee, previous places of employment of any such employees and any other reason- able information bearing upon the fitness of any such employee to be em- ployed in any such business. Section 6: Any permit herein granted shall be revocable upon any violation of this ordinance or if a.ny such business is not being con- du cted as a bona fide massage parlor, steam bath, bubble bath, turkish bath, shower bath and other .health and/or beauty baths. A notice shall be given by the City Council of the revocation of any permit which notice shall state the date when such revocation shall be effective. Said notice shall give any such permittee at least 30 days' notice of revocation. t~ithin said 30 day period any such permit tee may file a written request for a public hearing on the .matter of said revocation. The City Clerk shall set a hearing date, give public notice thereof and such revocation shall not be effective until the determination of the City Council follow- ing any such public hearing. Section 7: The special permit required by this ordinance and the identification cards required by this ordinance shall be in addition to requirements of a business license under Ordinance No. 418 of the City of Lynwood. Section 8: Any person, firm, or corporation violating any of -~- the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable by a Pine of not to ex- ceed five hundred dollars 0600.00) or imprisonment in the City Jail of the-City of Lymaood or the County Jail oP Los Angeles County, State of California, for a period of time not to exceed six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Each such person, firm, or corporation shall be deemed guilty of .a separate offense for every day during any portion of which violation of any provision of this ordinance is committed, continued, or permitted by Such person, and shall be punishable therefor as provided by this ordinance. Section 9: The City Clerk aria"11 certify to the adoption of this ordinance and shall cause the same to be published once in the Lynwood press, a newspaper of general circulation, published and circu- lated in said City of Lynwood. drat read at a regular meeting of the City Council of said City held on the 2nd day of May, 1950, and finally adopted and ordered published at a regular meeting oP said Council held on the 16th day of May , 1950, by the following vote: AYES: COUNCILMEN Daetweiler~Bruner.Sneddon. Stroh, Willard. NOES: COUPCILMEN None. ABSENT: COUNCILMEN AT^lEST• CLERK, ~ Or LYNiV00D S i'=11^E OF CAL i FCR^i1A ) COliDTTY Or LOS ANuELES: ss. CIxY 0~ LYN~~OOD ) I, the ~.zndersigned, City Clerk of the City of Lyntaooc_, and ex-officio clerk of t;:ie Council of 'said City, c-o hereby certify that the above is a true and correct copy of Ordinance do. 592 adopted by the City Council of the City of Lyn*~rooc_ and th~~.i; sa."le, eras passed on the~d_ate and by the vote therein stated. ~7ated this 18th d-ay of Mav ._. , 19,.x. ~~ 1"_' CLE_~K ~ nE CI i"_' Or LYDT''100D