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SECTION 3. The City Council of the City of Lake Elmo hereby amends Title Xf: <br />Business Regulations; Chapter 114: Therapeutic Massage, by adding the following <br />language: <br />§114.01 PURPOSE. The City Council finds that therapeutic massage and bodywork <br />establishments potentially provide an opportunity for the commission of crimes, <br />including but not limited to, prostitution. The purpose of this Chapter is therefore to <br />prevent businesses from being used as facilities for commission of crimes and to <br />assure that such businesses comply with basic consumer protection standards, thereby <br />protecting the public health, safety, and general welfare of the citizens of the city. <br />A. No person shall exercise, carry -on, or be engaged in the trade or business of <br />providing massage therapy or bodywork or operating a massage therapy or <br />bodywork establishment unless such person is currently licensed under this <br />Chapter. The application and licensing process are described in 5114.12-15. <br />This section is intended to require the licensing of the business as an entity, as <br />well as each person employed by the business for the purpose of providing <br />therapeutic massage or bodywork therapy. <br />B. Notwithstanding the licensing requirements detailed under paragraph (A) of <br />this section, therapeutic massage premises ticense holders allowing persons to <br />provide therapeutic massage or bodywork services at a therapeutic massage <br />establishment without a current license may be held responsible and charged <br />with a violation of this chapter. <br />C. Persons or businesses currently engaged in the practice of therapeutic massage <br />or bodywork at the time of enactment of this section shall be in full <br />compliance with the terms and conditions of the section no later than ten (10) <br />days following publication of the section. The exception to the compliance <br />requirement shall be the required educational standards. Specifically, those <br />persons employed in the practice of therapeutic massage or bodywork within <br />the City of Lake Elmo prior to the enactment of this section shall be allowed to <br />continue in such practice without meeting the required minimum standard of <br />500 formal training hours until January 1, 2014. Persons or businesses engaging <br />in the practices described in this section after the enactment of this ordinance <br />shall be in full compliance prior to engaging in such practices. <br />114.03 LICENSING EXCEPTIONS. The following persons or places, as described, shad <br />be exempt from the licensing requirements of this Chapter: <br />A. Persons duty licensed by this state to practice medicine, surgery, osteopathy, <br />chiropractic, physical therapy, or podiatry, provided the massage is <br />