Warner Robins, GA Business Licensing & Operations: Massage Establishments (2026)

Chapter 12 requires two distinct licenses: Sec. 12-51 bars any massage establishment from operating until a license application is completed and filed with the city clerk, and Sec. 12-71 separately bars any individual from administering a massage without a current, valid massaginist license. Sec. 12-52 details the establishment application, requiring the owner's identity, a list of every massaginist to be employed with a health certificate issued no more than 15 days before filing, disclosure of anyone owning 10 percent or more of a corporate applicant, and disclosure of felony or specified misdemeanor convictions within the prior five years.

Sec. 12-72 imposes similar disclosure duties on individual massaginists and additionally requires a diploma from a course of at least six months in physical culture, massage, hydrotherapy, electrotherapy, and hygiene, or two years of supervised apprenticeship in place of the diploma. 00 for each additional employee, per Sec. 12-25. Sec. 12-26 requires the license to be posted conspicuously and bars it from being assigned to another party. Sec. or after midnight Eastern time. Sec. 12-94 separately bans touching a patron's genitals, anal area, or a female patron's breast, and requires patrons to be covered by opaque material during treatment, with an exception for treatments ordered in writing by a licensed physician, osteopath, or chiropractor.