(A) The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to a regularly established and licensed hospital, sanitarium, nursing home or medical clinic, nor to the office or clinic operated by a duly qualified and licensed medical practitioner, osteopath, chiropractor or LICENSED MASSAGE THERAPIST (as defined in division (B) below) in connection with his or her practice of medicine, chiropractic, osteopathy or massage therapy; provided, that such office or clinic is regularly used by such medical practitioner, chiropractor, osteopath or massage therapist as his or her principal location for his or her said practice.
(B) MASSAGE THERAPISTS, as defined herein, shall mean any person at least 18 years of age and who satisfies at least one of the following requirements:
(1) Such person must have graduated from an instruction or school of massage therapy that offers a curriculum of at least 500 hours of supervised classroom instruction, and is:
(a) Licensed by the state community college system or the equivalent educational license authority in another state;
(b) Accredited by an accreditation commission which is recognized by the United States Department of Education; or
(c) Designated as curriculum approved by the American Massage Therapy Association Commission on Massage Training Approval/Accreditation.
(2) The applicant is presently nationally certified in therapeutic massage and bodywork, by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork.
(Code 2019, § 11-2)