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749.01 DEFINITIONS. (a) "Employee" means any person over eighteen years of age, other than a massagist, who renders any service in connection with the operation of a massage business and receives compensation from the operator of the business or patrons. (b) "Licensee" means the person to whom a license has been issued who owns or operates a massage establishment as defined herein. (c) "Massage" means any method of pressure or friction against or stroking, kneading, rubbing, tapping, pounding, vibrating or stimulating of the external parts of the human body with the hands or with the aid of any mechanical electrical apparatus or appliances with or without such supplementary aids as rubbing alcohol, liniments, antiseptics, oils, powder, creams, lotions, ointment or other such similar preparations commonly used in the practice of massage, under such circumstances that it is reasonably expected that the person to whom the treatment is provided or some third person on his or her behalf will pay money or give any other consideration or any gratuity therefore. (d) "Massage establishment" means any establishment having a source of income or compensation derived from the practice of massage as defined in subsection (c) hereof, and which has a fixed place of business where any person, firm, association or corporation engages in or carries on any of the activities as defined in subsection (b) hereof. (e) "Massagist" "masseur" or "masseuse" means any person who, for any consideration whatsoever engages in the practice of massage as defined in subsection (c) hereof. (f) "Outcall massage service" means any business, the function of which is to engage in, or carry on massages at a location designated by the customer or client rather than at a massage establishment as defined in subsection (d) hereof. (g) "Patron" means any person eighteen years of age or older who receives a massage under such circumstances that it is reasonably expected that he or she will pay money or give any other consideration therefor. (h) "Person" means any individual, partnership, firm, association, joint stock company, corporation or combination of individuals in whatever form or character. (i) "Sexual or genital area" means genitals, pubic hair, buttocks, anus or perineum of any person, or the vulva or breasts of a female. (Ord. 79 -83. Passed 6- 6 -79.) 749.02 PERMIT REQUIRED. (a) Business License Required. No person shall engage in or carry out the business of massage unless he has a valid massage license issued by the City pursuant to the provisions of this chapter for each and every separate office or place of business conducted by such person. (b) Massagist's Permit Required. No person shall practice massage as a massagist, employee or otherwise, unless he has a valid and subsisting massagist's license issued to him by the State pursuant to the provisions of the Ohio Revised Code, governing the limited practice of medicine. (Ord. 79 -83. Passed 6- 6 -79.) 749.03 EXEMPTIONS.