Title
Ordinance Supplementing the City Code at Title Seven: Business Licensing; Article VII: Service Businesses, By Adding Chapter 768, entitled "Massage Establishment and Practitioner Licensing" to eliminate sex trafficking in massage establishments in the City of Pittsburgh.
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The Council of the City of Pittsburgh hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The Pittsburgh Code is hereby supplemented at Title Seven, Business Licensing, Article VII, Service Businesses, by adding Chapter 768 as follows:
CHAPTER 768: MASSAGE ESTABLISHMENT AND PRACTITIONER LICENSING
768.1 PURPOSE
The purpose of this ordinance is to prevent sex trafficking and sexual exploitation through regulating and licensing massage establishments and massage practitioners.
768.2 DEFINITIONS
1) The following words, terms, and phrases, when used in this ordinance, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
a) Law enforcement means an appropriate local law enforcement agency in charge of investigation and enforcement of regulatory violations.
b) Regulatory agency means a local department or agency that is designated to regulate the massage industry and to administer and enforce this regulation.
c) Employee means any person other than massage practitioners who renders any service in a massage establishment, but who has no physical contact with customers or clients.
d) Manager means the person or persons designated by the owner of the massage establishment to act as the representative or agent of the owner in managing day-to-day operations with the same liabilities and responsibilities. Evidence of management includes, but is not limited to, evidence that the individual has power to direct or hire and dismiss massage practitioners and employees control hours of operations, create policy of rules or purchase supplies. A manager may also be an owner.
e) Massage means the performance o...
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