Effective 28 Aug 1988

407.327. Health spas, registration with attorney general, form, fee — fees deposited in health spa regulatory fund, created — attorney general, enforcement, no bar to civil claims. — 1. It shall be unlawful for any health spa to offer, advertise, or execute or cause to be executed by the buyer any health spa contract in this state unless the health spa at the time of the offer, advertisement, sale or execution of a health spa contract has been properly registered with the office of the attorney general. The registration shall:

(1) Disclose the address, ownership, date of first sales and date of first opening of the health spa;

(2) Be renewed annually; and

(3) Be accompanied by a fee of one hundred dollars per registration and each annual renewal thereof. Each separate location where health spa services are offered shall be considered a separate health spa and shall file a separate registration, even though the separate locations are owned or operated by the same owner.

2. All fees collected pursuant to this section shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of a special trust fund to be known as the "Health Spa Regulatory Fund". Moneys in the health spa regulatory fund shall be used solely for the administration of sections 407.325 to 407.340.

3. The attorney general shall have all powers, rights and duties as are provided in sections 407.010 to 407.145, to seek penalties, remedies, and procedures that are provided in such sections against any health spa that is engaged in practices that are unlawful according to the provisions of this chapter.

4. The provisions of this section* are not exclusive and do not relieve health spas or the contract subject thereto from compliance with all other applicable provisions of law nor shall such provisions bar any civil claim against any health spa which has acquired any moneys or property, real or personal, by means of any practice declared unlawful by this chapter.

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(L. 1988 S.B. 486 § 2)

*Word "subsection" appears in original rolls.