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B. Health and sanitation regulations governing massage therapy establishments and massage therapists can minimize the risk of the spread of communicable diseases and can promote overall health and sanitation. C. License qualifications for the restrictions on massage therapy establishments and massage therapists can minimize the risk that such businesses and persons will facilitate prostitution and other criminal activity in the community. D. Massage services provided by persons with no specialized and standardized training in massage can endanger citizens by facilitating the spread of communicable diseases, by exposing citizens to unhealthy and unsanitary conditions, and by increasing the risk of personal injury. E. Massage businesses which employ persons with no specialized and standardized training can tax city law-enforcement services, because such businesses are more likely to be operated as fronts for prostitution and other criminal activity than operations that only employ persons with the training required by this ordinance. Fewer of such businesses will reduce the drain on law enforcement. F. The training of professional massage therapists at accredited institutions is an important means of ensuring the fullest measure of protecting the public health, safety and welfare. 309.02 DEFINITIONS: As used in this Chapter, the following words and terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this Section: ACCREDITED INSTITUTION: An educational institution holding accredited status with the Minnesota Office of Higher Education or the United States Department of Education. CHAIR MASSAGE: A massage provided to a fully-clothed individual, and limited to the neck, shoulders, arms, and back, where the massage is not provided in a massage therapy establishment; and provided the individual giving the massage meets the requirements specified in Section 309.05(A). (Ord. 1329, 11-14-05) MASSAGE THERAPIST: A person who practices or administers massage therapy to the public. MASSAGE THERAPY: The rubbing, stroking, kneading, tapping or rolling of the body with the hands or other parts of the body for the exclusive purposes of relaxation,physical fitness, rehabilitation or beautification and for no other purpose. MASSAGE THERAPY ESTABLISHMENT:Any room,or premise wherein a person may receive a massage from a licensed massage therapist for a fee; where massages are given on more than 14 calendar days in any given calendar year that does not meet the description of 309.03(B). (Ord. 1329, 11- 14-05)