§ 15-91. Definitions.

For this article, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings:

Barber shop means an establishment which provides one or more of the following services in exchange for consideration: hair care, makeovers, facials, manicures, pedicures, or body waxing.

Beauty salon means an establishment which provides one or more of the following services in exchange for consideration: hair care, skin care, makeovers, facials, manicures, pedicures or body waxing.

Care facility means a hospital, nursing home, convalescent care facility, assisted living facility, life care facility, or group care facility.

Chief of police means the Chesterfield County Police Chief or his designee.

Client means a person receiving a massage.

Consideration means anything of value given in exchange for services rendered, including, but not limited to, money, goods, services or advertising.

Health club means an establishment which provides health and fitness equipment and programs for its client's use in exchange for any form of consideration. A health club may be located in a hotel or motel but not in a guest room in a hotel or motel.

Licensed massage therapist means any person who administers a massage to a client in exchange for consideration, and who has qualified as a licensed massage therapist pursuant to the requirements of Code of Virginia, §§ 54.1-3000 and 54.1-3029, as amended.

Massage means the treatment of soft tissues for therapeutic purposes by the application of massage and body work techniques based on the manipulation or application of pressure to the muscular structure or soft tissues of the human body. Massage shall not include the diagnosis or treatment of illness or disease or a service or procedure for which a license to practice medicine, nursing, chiropractic therapy, physical therapy, occupational therapy, acupuncture or podiatry is required by law. Massage shall also not include placing hands on, touching, or fondling the sexual or genital parts of another or exposing one's sexual or genital parts to any other person.

Massage clinic means a fixed place of business where a licensed massage therapist gives a client a massage. A massage clinic shall either be free-standing or located within a health club, tanning salon, hotel or motel (but not in a guest room in a hotel or motel), beauty salon, barbershop or within a public university, public college, or post-secondary school that is approved by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia.

Massage clinic operator means the person who is responsible for the day-to-day operation of the clinic. The massage clinic operator need not qualify as a licensed massage therapist if he or she does not intend to administer massage.

Public gathering means any event occurring in the county that is open to the general public and involves more than 50 persons.

Seated massage means a massage of the upper body or feet when the client is fully clothed and seated in a chair.

Sexual or genital parts means the genitals, pubic area, buttocks or anus of any person and the breasts of a female person.

Tanning salon means an establishment which has as its primary business the provision of tanning services in exchange for consideration.

(Ord. of 6-27-18(2), § 1)

(Ord. of 6-27-18(2), § 1)