§ 43-7. Investigation of license applicants.

Following the submission of an application for the issuance of an original massage establishment license or renewal of an existing massage establishment license, the chief of police shall determine whether the applicant or any partner, manager or principal of applicant and also, in the event the applicant is a corporation, any officer, director or stockholder holding ten (10) percent or more of the corporate stock of such corporation, has been finally convicted in any court within the past five (5) years of sodomy, procuring, pandering, keeping a bawdy house, keeping an assignation house, engaging in prostitution, engaging in assignation or of any offense or offenses contained in Sections 43.02 through and including 43.05 of the Texas Penal Code of 1974.

Further, following the submission of an application for the issuance of an original massage establishment license or renewal of an existing massage establishment license, the chief of police shall determine if such establishment employs any person who has been finally convicted in any court of sodomy, procuring, pandering, keeping a bawdy house, keeping an assignation house, engaging in prostitution, engaging in assignation or of any offense contained in Sections 43.02 through and including 43.05 of the Texas Penal Code of 1974.

(Ord. No. 2693, § 7, 9-12-74; Ord. No. 2703, § 3, 10-17-74; Ord. No. 3056, § 5, 1-5-78)

State law reference

Local regulation of massage therapists, V.T.C.A., Occupations Code § 455.005.