§ 108-11. Massage establishment facilities.

Each massage establishment shall comply with the following requirements:

A. 

The premises shall have adequate equipment for disinfecting instruments and materials used in the administration of massages. Such instruments and materials shall be disinfected after every use.

B. 

All massage tables, bathtubs, shower stalls, steam rooms, sauna rooms, bath areas and floors shall have surfaces which may be readily disinfected.

C. 

All walls, ceilings, floors, showers, bathtubs, steam rooms, sauna rooms and all other physical facilities shall be in good repair and maintained in a clean and sanitary condition. Wet and dry heat rooms, steam or vapor rooms, or steam or vapor cabinets, shower compartments and toilet rooms shall be thoroughly cleaned each day the business is in operation. When carpeting is used on the floors, it shall be kept dry.

D. 

The premises shall be equipped with a service sink for custodial services.

E. 

Each massage establishment shall have a minimum of one shower, one toilet and one washbasin.

F. 

If male and female patrons are to be served simultaneously, such massage rooms, dressing facilities, toilet facilities, steam rooms and sauna rooms as are provided shall be provided as separate facilities for male and female patrons and each such separate facility or room shall be clearly marked as such.

G. 

Rooms in which massages are to be administered shall have at least 50 square feet of clear floor area and shall maintain a light level of no less than 20 footcandles as metered at three feet above the surface of the floor. (For illustrative purposes only, such light level is equivalent to light from a single forty-watt fluorescent light bulb in a fifty-square-foot room.) Lighting in colors other than white shall be prohibited. Such rooms shall contain a door incapable of being locked from either the exterior or the interior.

H. 

No stuffed or upholstered furniture or beds and mattresses shall be permitted in rooms in which massage is to be administered. Such rooms shall be equipped with massage tables having a hard surface impervious to liquids, with a width of no more than three feet and a length of no more than eight feet. The surface of such tables shall be positioned at least two feet above the surface of the floor. Such tables may be equipped with either nondisposable pads or coverings or disposable pads or coverings not more than 2 1/2 inches thick. Nondisposable pads or coverings shall be removable, impervious to liquids and cleanable.