For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
MASSAGE. The rubbing, pressing, stroking, kneading, tapping, rolling, pounding, vibrating, or stimulating the superficial parts of the human body with the hands or any instrument by a person who is not duly licensed by the state to practice medicine, surgery, osteopathy, chiropractic, physical therapy, or podiatry.
PHYSICAL CULTURE AND HEALTH SERVICES, PHYSICAL CULTURE AND HEALTH CLUB, REDUCING CLUB, REDUCING SALON, and THERAPEUTIC MASSAGE STUDIO. Any building, room, structure, place, or establishment used by the public other than a hospital, sanitarium, rest home, nursing home, boarding home, or other institution for the hospitalization or care of human beings, duly licensed under the provisions of M.S. §§ 144.50 through 144.703, as they may be amended from time to time, inclusive, where nonmedical and non-surgical manipulative exercises or massages are practiced upon the human body for a fee or other valuable consideration by anyone not duly licensed by the state to practice medicine, surgery, osteopathy, chiropractic, physical therapy or podiatry, with or without the use of mechanical, therapeutic, or bathing devices.
(Prior Code, § 111.340)