UNLAWFUL ACTS; VIOLATIONS
Colorado Springs City Code § 2.3.107
in effect2.3.107: UNLAWFUL ACTS; VIOLATIONS:
A. It shall be unlawful for any person to:
1. Directly or indirectly, personally or through an agent or employee, conduct any massage business, or to use in connection with the massage business any premises, in whole or in part, without possessing a valid massage business license for each premises where the massage business operates.
2. Make a willful misrepresentation in applying for or obtaining a massage business license.
3. Flee, attempt to flee, or elude inspection pursuant to this part.
B. It shall be unlawful for any principal or managing agent of a massage business to:
1. Employ any person as a massage therapist or to allow any person to work as a massage therapist in a massage business who does not possess both a valid government-issued, photographic identity card and a massage therapist license.
2. Encourage, permit, or tolerate any employee or client of the massage business to engage in specified sexual activities or to expose the employee's specified anatomical areas within the premises.
3. Fail to keep records as required by this part or fail to permit inspection of records as required by this part.
4. Fail to immediately report to law enforcement any specified sexual activities occurring in a massage business between an employee of the massage business and a client.
5. Permit the massage business premises to be used for living or sleeping quarters for any person when not otherwise permitted by this Code.
C. It shall be unlawful for any massage business to advertise specified sexual activities, prostitution, escort services, or other sexual services or to employ language in the text of any advertising or any images that would reasonably suggest to a prospective client that any specified sexual activities are available through the massage business or at the licensed premises.
D. It shall be unlawful for any massage business to operate between the hours of eleven o'clock (11:00) P.M. and five o'clock (5:00) A.M., inclusive.
E. Each principal, managing agent, and equity holder shall not violate, or permit to be violated, any local, State, or Federal law based on acts of dishonesty, fraud, deceit, violence, weapons, substance abuse or narcotics, sexual misconduct, or prostitution related misconduct of any kind, whether or not the acts were committed in the State of Colorado. (Ord. 22-30)
Source: City of Colorado Springs, Colorado, City Code and City Charter (American Legal Publishing, codelibrary.amlegal.com)URL: https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/coloradospringsco/latest/coloradosprings_co/0-0-0-31334Fetched: 11/1/2026