A massage enterprise or therapist may exist for the following persons and places:
(A) Persons duly licensed by this state to practice medicine, surgery, osteopathy, chiropractic, physical therapy, or podiatry, provided the massage is administered in the regular course of the medical business and not provided as part of a separate and distinct massage business.
(B) Persons duly licensed by this stated as beauty culturists or barbers, provided such persons do not hold themselves out as giving massage treatments and provided the massage by beauty culturists is limited to the head, hand, neck and feet and the massage by barbers is limited to the head and neck.
(C) Persons working solely under the direction and control of a person duly licensed by this state to practice medicine, surgery, osteopathy, chiropractic, physical therapy, or podiatry.
(D) Places duly licensed or operating as a hospital, nursing home, hospice, sanitarium, or group home established for the hospitalization or care of human beings.
(E) Persons or places duly licensed according to this chapter to practice therapeutic massage.
(F) Students of an accredited institution who are performing massage services in the course of a clinical component of an accredited program of study, provided that the students are performing the massage services at the location of the accredited institution and provided the students are identified to the public as students of massage therapy. Students of an accredited institution who are performing massage services at clinics or other facilities located outside of the accredited institution must have at least 150 hours of certified therapeutic massage training at the accredited institution prior to performing the therapy outside of the institution and must be identified to the public as a student of massage therapy.
(Am. Ord. 785, passed 6-18-2019)