# Sec. 5-184.16. Unlawful acts

Codified through Bill No. CB-018-2026, adopted May 12, 2026, effective July 24, 2026. Source: Municode, Supplement 2026 Update 2. Editorial notes and legislative history omitted.

## Sec. 5-184.16. Unlawful acts

Prince George's County, Md., Code § 5-184.16 (2026)

(a) It shall be unlawful for anyone to engage in, operate, manage, conduct, or carry on a massage establishment without a valid, nonsuspended license issued pursuant to this Division.

(b) It shall be unlawful for anyone to administer a massage in a massage establishment without a valid, nonsuspended license issued pursuant to this Division.

(c) It shall be unlawful for any person, in a massage establishment, to place his or her hands upon, to touch with any part of his or her body, to fondle in any manner, or to massage, an erogenous area of any other person.

(d) It shall be unlawful for any person, in a massage establishment, to expose his or her erogenous area, or any portion thereof, to any other person. It shall also be unlawful for any person, in a massage establishment, to expose the erogenous area, or any portion thereof, of any other person.

(e) It shall be unlawful for any person, while in the presence of any other person in a massage establishment, to fail to conceal with a fully opaque covering, the erogenous area of his or her body.

(f) It shall be unlawful for any person in a massage establishment or in a health club or health spa to give or administer a massage to any other person of the opposite sex.

(g) It shall be unlawful for any person to administer a massage in any place other than a licensed massage establishment, except as provided otherwise herein.

(h) It shall be unlawful for any person owning, operating or managing a massage establishment, to cause, allow, or permit in or about such massage establishment, any agent, employee, or any other person permitted or invited upon the premises to perform any act prohibited in Subsections (a), (b), (c), (d), (f) or (g) of this Section.

(i) It shall be unlawful to own, operate, or manage an off-premises massage establishment.