[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Health of the Town of Fairhaven 9-26-1979 as Ch. IX
of the 1979 Regulations. Amendments noted where applicable.]
This chapter shall include all weight reduction and exercise
salons, gymnasiums, schools of self defense and/or other related uses.
A.
No person shall practice massage, or conduct an establishment for
the giving of vapor, pool, shower or other baths for hire or reward,
or advertise or hold himself out as being engaged in the business
of massage, exercise, weight reduction or the giving of said baths
without receiving a license therefor from the Board of Health, provided
that a person registered as a barber or apprentice under the provisions
of MGL c. 112, § 87H or 87I, or as a hairdresser, operator
or a student under the provisions of MGL c. 112, §§ 87T
to 87JJ, inclusive, may practice facial and scalp massaging without
such a license.
B.
Every such establishment shall display a valid license for each employee
engaged in the practice of massage. The Board of Health shall issue
a license upon satisfactory certification that the applicant has complied
with all applicable state and local regulations. Requirements for
individual licensing shall include a tuberculosis diagnostic procedure.
The Board may require the installation of showers in all establishments
when in its opinion this would be in the interest of good health practice.
The Board of Health may revoke any license granted by it for
such cause as it deems sufficient, provided that a person licensed
to massage or to conduct an establishment for the giving of vapor,
pool, shower or other baths in any town may at the request of a physician
attend patients in the Town of Fairhaven without taking out an additional
license.
