Rules for Toronto
Body rub
โBODY-RUB - Includes the kneading, manipulating, rubbing, massaging, touching, or stimulating, by any means, of a person's body or part thereof but does not include medical or therapeutic treatment given by a person otherwise duly qualified, licensed or registered so to do under the laws of the Province of Ontario.โ
โA. Every person applying for a body-rubber's licence, and every person applying for an owner's or operator's licence who intends to perform or solicit body-rubs or who actually does perform or solicit body-rubs, shall deliver or have delivered to the Medical Officer of Health, prior to his or her licence being issued or renewed, a certificate on a form supplied by the Municipal Licensing and Standards Division, signed by a duly qualified medical practitioner certifying that such person is free from communicable diseases and is medically fit to perform or receive body-rubs, provided that, subject to Subsection C hereof, no such certificate shall be required by the Municipal Licensing and Standards Division pursuant to this section more than once every three yearsโ
โA. No body-rubber or operator shall be employed by or be under contract for services to more than one owner or in respect of more than one body-rub parlour, at the same time.โ
โNo person who performs body-rubs in, upon or at a body-rub parlour shall hold, receive or handle any cash or currency used or received in connection with the business of the body-rub parlour or receive or hold any customer's money or belongings, and every owner or operator shall, during the period in which the body-rub parlour owned or operated by him or her is open for business, provide a person for such purposes, which person shall not, during the period in which he or she is so employed, provide any body-rubs.โ
โNo owner or operator shall, in respect of a body-rub parlour owned or operated by him or her, open such body-rub parlour for business or permit the same to be or to remain open for business or permit any body-rub or services of any kind to be performed, offered or solicited in the said body-rub parlour except between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. on Monday to Saturday, inclusive, and between the hours of 12:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. on Sundays and holidays.โ
Holistic
โA. No holistic practitioner shall, while providing services as a holistic practitioner, touch in any manner whatsoever the specified body areas of any person or allow his or her specified body areas to be touched.
B. No owner shall permit any holistic practitioner providing services as a holistic practitioner to touch in any manner whatsoever the specified body areas of any person or allow a practitioner's specified body areas to be touched.
C. No holistic practitioner shall provide or offer to provide holistic services upon any person unless such person's specified body areas are completely and opaquely covered.
D. No owner shall permit any holistic practitioner to provide or offer to provide any holistic services upon any person unless such person's specified body areas are completely and opaquely covered.โ
โA. Every owner shall file with the Municipal Licensing and Standards Division a copy of a list of all services offered or provided in, upon or at his or her holistic centre, and of the respective fees charged for such services, and, if such charges be based on a computation of time, the hourly rate shall be shown on such list.
B. No owner or holistic practitioner shall charge, demand, or request any payment for any services offered or performed in a holistic centre except in accordance with the list filed with the Municipal Licensing and Standards Division under Subsection A.
C. No owner or holistic practitioner shall offer or provide any holistic service in a holistic centre, or perform any services, except in accordance with the list filed under Subsection A.
D. Every owner shall post a copy of the list of services and fees referred to in this section in a conspicuous place in the interior of the holistic centre plainly visible to any person upon entering the said premises.โ
โEvery applicant for a holistic practitioner's licence or renewal thereof shall submit with his or her application documentation satisfactory to the Municipal Licensing and Standards Division establishing that the applicant is a member in good standing of a professional holistic association, which documentation shall include:
(1) A document issued by a professional holistic associationโ