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SANTA CLARA COUNTY CODE OF ORDINANCES: Sec. B22-18. Prohibited acts.

Copyrighted by SANTA CLARA COUNTY CODE & Municipal Code Corporation, 1998.

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Sec. B22-18. Prohibited acts.

(a) No permittee or any other employee of a massage establishment shall place either his/her hands upon, or touch with any part of his/her body, a sexual or genital part of any other person in the course of a massage, or massage a sexual or genital part of any other person. Sexual or genital parts shall include the genitals, pubic area, anus or perineum of any person or the vulva or the nipples of a female.

(b) No permittee or any other employee of a massage establishment shall uncover or expose the sexual or genital parts, as defined above of a client or themselves in the course of practicing massage or other health treatment before or after a massage. This subsection does not prohibit a client from turning over in the course of a massage, so long as the therapist holds a drape over the client to protect his/her privacy.

(Ord. No. NS-516.3, § 1, 1-9-01)

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