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5. “Complementary and alternative health care practices” shall mean touch-based practices in which physical contact is intentionally provided to a client for therapeutic, relaxation, comfort, or general wellness purposes, including but not limited to those described in Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 146A, whether or not the practitioner represents the service as improving health or well-being. Examples include healing touch, reiki, energy work, relaxation techniques, and other non-invasive practices intended to promote general wellness or stress reduction. The term applies only to practices in which physical contact is a purposeful and integral component of the service. Incidental or minimal contact that occurs solely for positioning, guiding, or placing objects does not constitute a complementary or alternative health care practice. All such practices shall be non-sexual in nature and conducted in a professional setting consistent with legitimate therapeutic objectives. The term does not include activities otherwise regulated as medicine, chiropractic, physical therapy, or massage therapy under other applicable provisions of this Code or State Statute. 6. “Complementary and alternative health care practitioner” means a person who practices complementary and alternative health care practices. 7. “Complementary and alternative health care establishment” shall mean any room or rooms wherein a person may receive services from a " Complementary and alternative health care practitioner " for a fee. 8. The term "accessory use" as used in this chapter means a use at the same location with, and of a nature customarily incidental and subordinate to, the principal use for said location. 2202.020. LICENSE FOR MASSAGE THERAPY AND COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE HEALTH CARE PRACTICES AS AN ACCESSORY USE. 1. No person, partnership, or corporation shall engage in a business, which has massage therapy or any complementary and alternative health care practice as an accessory use, without being licensed as provided in this Chapter. 2. The initial application for a license by a business shall be made by completing an application form provided by and containing such information as required by the City and by paying a one-time non-refundable initial application fee as established by City Council resolution. 3. If the application for a license under this Chapter is granted, the fee above shall be the first year’s license fee. Thereafter, the license fee shall be as established by City Council resolution. A separate license shall be obtained for each place of business. 2202.030. GRANTING, DENYING AND RESCINDING OF LICENSES FOR MASSAGE THERAPY AND COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE HEALTH CARE PRACTICES AS AN ACCESSORY USE. 1. Licenses may be granted only to establishments associated with and operating within the confines of and incidental to a properly zoned chiropractic office, beauty parlor and a properly zoned fitness center. 2. No more than three (3) individual practitioner licenses shall be issued to any business establishment for the provision of massage therapy or complementary and alternative health care