[Ord. No. 762, 5/7/2020]
Medical or dental office/clinic: for the examination or treatment of persons as outpatients, including laboratories incidental thereto.
[Ord. No. 762, 5/7/2020]
1. 
Alternative therapy provider includes:
A. 
The practice of an individual who uses touch to affect the energy systems, acupoints, Qi meridians or channels of energy of the human body while engaged within the scope of practice of a profession with established standards and ethics. Such practices include acupressure, Asian bodywork therapy, polarity therapy bodywork, qigong, reiki, shiatsu and tui na;
B. 
Reflexology;
C. 
The practice of an individual who uses touch, words and directed movement to deepen awareness of existing patterns of movement in the body and to suggest new possibilities of movement, while engaged within the scope of practice of a profession with established standards and ethics; and/or
D. 
Cold scoping and plaza treatments.
2. 
Special exception criteria.
A. 
All persons providing therapy services shall have obtained all necessary licenses required by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or the Township. If unlicensed individuals are determined to be providing services, any special exception approval previously granted shall become void.
B. 
The premises must comply with applicable ordinances of the Township, including, but not limited to, the building, fire prevention and zoning ordinances of the Township.
C. 
Treatment rooms shall be at least 50 square feet of floor area and shall maintain a light level of no less than 20 footcandles as metered at three feet above the surface of the floor (for illustrative purposes only, such light level is equivalent to light from a single forty-watt fluorescent light bulb in the fifty-square-foot room). Such rooms shall contain a door incapable of being locked from either the exterior or the interior.
D. 
Therapies may commence operation no earlier than 7:00 a.m. and extend no later than 10:00 p.m.
E. 
An alternative therapy center shall prominently and publicly display its license on the premises, and each therapists' license shall be available for inspection. Price rates charged for any and all services shall be prominently posted in the reception area in a location available for view, and no charges may be made other than in accordance with such posted rates.
F. 
The owner or licensee or duly authorized manager shall be on duty at all times during the hours such establishment is open for business, such owner, licensee or manager shall be identifiable by prominently wearing an identification badge to that affect.
G. 
Eating or drinking shall not be permitted on the premises, including, but not limited to, the serving, either for sale or otherwise, or the possession of any alcoholic beverages.
H. 
Animals, except for service animals for the handicapped, shall not be permitted within the therapy centers.
[Ord. No. 762, 5/7/2020]
1. 
Special exception criteria.
A. 
All persons providing therapy services shall have obtained all necessary licenses required by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or the Township. If unlicensed individuals are determined to be providing services, any special exception approval previously granted shall become void.
B. 
The premises must comply with applicable ordinances of the Township, including, but not limited to, the building, fire prevention and zoning ordinances of the Township.
C. 
Treatment rooms shall be at least 50 square feet of floor area and shall maintain a light level of no less than 20 footcandles as metered at three feet above the surface of the floor (for illustrative purposes only, such light level is equivalent to light from a single forty-watt fluorescent light bulb in the fifty-square-foot room). Such rooms shall contain a door incapable of being locked from either the exterior or the interior.
D. 
Therapies may commence operation no earlier than 7:00 a.m. and extend no later than 10:00 p.m.
E. 
A massage therapy center shall prominently and publicly display its license on the premises, and each massage therapists' license shall be available for inspection. Price rates charged for any and all services shall be prominently posted in the reception area in a location available for view, and no charges may be made other than in accordance with such posted rates.
F. 
No person under the age of 18 shall be permitted to enter or remain on the premises or receive any massage.
G. 
The owner or licensee or duly authorized manager shall be on duty at all times during the hours such establishment is open for business, such owner, licensee or manager shall be identifiable by prominently wearing an identification badge to that affect.
H. 
Eating or drinking shall not be permitted on the premises, including, but not limited to, the serving, either for sale or otherwise, or the possession of any alcoholic beverages.
I. 
Animals, except for service animals for the handicapped, shall not be permitted within massage therapy centers.
[Ord. No. 762, 5/7/2020]
[Ord. No. 762, 5/7/2020]
1. 
Methadone treatment facility: a facility licensed by the Department of Health to use the drug methadone in the treatment, maintenance or detoxification of persons.
A. 
Conditional use criteria.
(1) 
A methadone treatment facility shall not be operated or maintained on a parcel within 500 feet, measured by a straight line in all directions, without regard to intervening structures or objects, from the nearest point on the property line of a parcel containing an existing school, public playground, public park, residential housing area, child-care facility, church, meetinghouse or other actual place of regularly stated religious worship established prior to the proposed methadone treatment facility.
(2) 
A methadone facility shall provide proof of registration with the Department of Health or proof that registration has been sought and is pending approval, and shall at all times maintain a valid, accurate, and up-to-date registration with the Department of Health. Should registration be denied or revoked at any time, any special exception shall immediately become void.