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
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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
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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-
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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
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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.
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1"_' CLE_~K ~ nE CI i"_' Or LYDT''100D