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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 11-13 Unlawful acts.">
  <section prefix="§" num="11-13" heading="Unlawful acts.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="General operations.">It is unlawful for any person maintaining, operating, or conducting a massage establishment to:<para num="(1)">remain open or provide services any time between the hours of midnight and 8 a.m., Official City Time;</para>
      <para num="(2)">provide treatment at the same time to persons of the opposite sex in the same room or quarters; or</para>
      <para num="(3)">provide to any person at any time any service which the Health Commissioner may reasonably consider to be dangerous to health or safety.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Violation of State law.">No person conducting a massage establishment shall tolerate on the premises any activity or behavior prohibited by the laws of the State, particularly, but not exclusively, those sections within &lt;cite data-doc="Md. Code" data-path="27"&gt;Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Maryland&lt;/cite&gt; proscribing prostitution, sodomy, perverted sexual practices, a bawdy place, adultery, fornication, any lewd and lascivious cohabitation, and all laws relating to obscene matter.</para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Violations of City law.">No person conducting a massage establishment shall tolerate in his establishment any activity or behavior which violates this Code, particularly, but not exclusively, those sections which parallel the State statutes on immorality and obscenity detailed above.</para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Penalties.">Any person violating the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction, be punished as hereinafter provided in this subtitle and, in addition to such penalty, it shall be the duty of the Director of Consumer Protection and Business Licensing to revoke the license of the establishment wherein the provisions of this section shall have been violated.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 15, §68</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 76-159</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" />
  </section>
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