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Sec. 22-3.1. Massage establishment permit -renewal. (a) Applications for the renewal of a permit shall be filed with the Chief of Police at least sixty (60) calendar days before the expiration of the current permit. Temporary permits will not be issued. Any permittee allowing his or her permit to lapse or which permit expired during a suspension shall be required to submit a new application and pay the corresponding original application fees. (b) Any person desiring to obtain a renewal of his/her respective permit shall file a written application under penalty of perjury on the required form with the Chief of Police who shall conduct an investigation. The application shall be accompanied by a nonrefundable filing fee established by separate resolution of the city council to help defray the cost of the investigation required by this chapter. An applicant shall be required to update the information contained in his/her original permit application and provide any new and/or additional information as may be reasonably required by the Chief of Police in order to determine whether said permit should be renewed. Section 8. Section 22-5 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby amended to add and revise requirements for massage technician, such that it reads as follows (new language in bold, deleted language in strikeout for tracking purposes only): Sec. 22-5. Massage technician permit [application.] (a) Any person desiring to obtain a permit to act as a massage technician shall make application to the chief of police or his designated representative. Prior to submitting such application a nonrefundable fee as established by resolution of the city council shall be paid to the department of finance to defray, in part, the cost of investigation and report required by this chapter. The department of finance shall issue a receipt showing that such permit application fee has been paid. The receipt, or a copy thereof, shall be supplied to the chief of police at the time such application is submitted. (b) The application for permit does not authorize acting as a massage technician until such permit has been granted. (c) Each applicant for a massage technician's permit mayshall furnish all the information required by section 22-3(c)(1) through 22-3(c)(9) of this chapter, and shall in addition furnish the following information: (1) A certificate from a medical doctor licensed to practice in the State of California stating that the applicant has within thirty (30) days immediately preceding the date of application been examined and found to be free of any contagious or communicable disease. Ordinance No. NS-XXX Page 10 of 36 11A-10