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E. Therapeutic Massage Enterprises <br />1. P ose. The purpose of this Division of the City Code is to prohibit <br />massage businesses and services to the public except those licensed <br />as therapeutic massage enterprise pursuant to this section. The <br />licensing regulations prescribed herein are necessary in order to <br />prevent criminal activity and to protect the health and welfare of the <br />community. The purpose of this section is not to impose restrictions <br />or limitations on the freedom protected speech or expression. <br />2. Findings of the City Council. The city council of the City of Falcon <br />Heights makes the following findings regarding the need to license <br />therapeutic massage enterprises and therapists and to prohibit all <br />other types of massage businesses and services to the public: <br />a. Persons who have bona fide and standardized training in <br />therapeutic massage, health, and hygiene can provide a <br />legitimate and necessary service to the general public. <br />b. Health and sanitation regulations governing therapeutic <br />massage enterprises and therapists can minimize the risk of <br />the spread of communicable diseases and can promote <br />overall health and sanitation. <br />c. License qualifications for the restrictions on therapeutic <br />massage enterprises and therapists can minimize the risk that <br />• such businesses and persons will facilitate prostitution and <br />other criminal activity in the community. <br />d. Massage services provided by persons with no specialized <br />and standardized training in massage can endanger citizens <br />by facilitating the spread of communicable diseases, by <br />exposing citizens to unhealthy and unsanitary conditions, and <br />by increasing the risk of personal injury. <br />e. Massage businesses which employ persons with no <br />specialized and standardized training can tax city law <br />enforcement services because such businesses are more <br />likely to be operated as fronts for prostitution and other <br />criminal activity than operations established by persons with <br />standardized training. <br />3. Definitions. The following words and terms when used in this <br />section shall have the following meanings unless the <br />context clearly indicates otherwise. <br />a. Massage -Any method of pressure on, or friction against, or <br />the rubbing, stroking, kneading, tapping, pounding, vibrating, <br />• stimulating, or rolling of the external parts of the human <br />body with the hands or with the aid of any mechanical or <br />electrical apparatus, or other appliances or devices, with or <br />without such supplementary aids as rubbing alcohol, <br />