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EXEMPTIONS:
The licensing requirements of this article do not apply to:
A. Public and private schools accredited by the state board of education or approved by the state division of private occupational schools;
B. Facilities providing massage services by employees of any governmental entity;
C. Training rooms of a recognized professional or amateur sports organization, dance troupe, bona fide athletic club, or other such athletic organization. For purposes of this subsection, a bona fide athletic club is an athletic club that receives ten percent (10%) or less of its gross income from providing massages to its members or the public;
D. Offices, clinics, and other facilities primarily used by state-licensed health care professionals, other than massage therapists, in the ordinary course of their health care profession. For purposes of this subsection, a licensed massage therapist may provide massage services in a facility that primarily is used for state-licensed health care services other than massage without obtaining a massage business license;
E. Barber shops, beauty salons, and other facilities at which barbers and cosmetologists licensed by the state provide massage services to the public in the ordinary course of their professions;
F. A place of business where a person offers to perform or performs massage for not more than 72 hours in any six-month period and the massage is part of a public or charity event;
G. A self-employed massage therapist operating out of the massage therapist’s home or the client’s home;
H. A spa or resort operated on the premises of a hotel with at least one hundred (100) rooms for overnight guests; or
I. A place of business which employs individuals who do not claim expressly or implicitly to be massage therapists and provides:
1. Practices using reflexology, auricular therapy, and meridian therapies that affect the reflexes of the body;
2. Practices using touch, words, and directed movements to deepen a person's awareness of movement patterns in his or her body, such as the Feldenkrais method, the Trager approach, and body-mind centering;
3. Practices using touch or healing touch to affect the human energy systems, such as reiki, shiatsu, and meridians;
4.Structural integration practices such as Rolfing and Hellerwork; and
5.The process of muscle activation techniques.
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