Colorado Springs City Council has introduced a Massage Therapy Business License Ordinance and a Massage Therapy Business License Fee.

The next City Council meeting is Tuesday, April 26, 2022.

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Here are 2 items in the ordinance that have to do with

self-employed massage therapists.

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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.


City of Colorado Springs City Council

Regular Meeting Agenda - Final


Tuesday, April 26, 2022 10:00 AM

Council Chambers at City Hall

107 N. Nevada Avenue

Colorado Springs, CO 80903


Here is the link to the full ordinance pertaining to Massage Business License Ordinance:


https://coloradosprings.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=10816973&GUID=7F0F4A9B-01F4-47FF-A227-C4A13563B5F2


The link the fees for Massage Business Licenses (be sure to scroll to page 3):


https://coloradosprings.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=10816702&GUID=D6720889-42EB-4286-B802-42E6A91AEF94

What options are there to give your opinion on these ordinances:


1) During the meeting, those who wish to comment may attend the meeting in person should submit their name, telephone number, and the topic or agenda item for comment via AllCouncil@coloradosprings.gov(link sends e-mail) Please email by end of day on April 25, 2022.


2) During the meeting, those who wish to comment via the phone should submit their name, telephone number, and the topic or agenda item for comment via AllCouncil@coloradosprings.gov(link sends e-mail) Please email by end of day on April 25, 2022. In addition to calling +1 720-617-3426 United States, Denver (Toll) and entering this Conference ID: 415 473 72#


3) Before the meeting, you can email or call some or all council members:

*Council Member Dave Donelson, District 1 (Introduced the MT Ordinances)

Phone: (719) 385-5487

E-mail: Dave.Donelson@coloradosprings.gov

*Councilmember Yolanda Avila, District 4

Phone: (719) 385-5492

E-mail: Yolanda.Avila@coloradosprings.gov

*Councilmember Stephannie Fortune, District 3

Phone: (719) 385-5470

Email: stephannie.fortune@coloradosprings.gov

*Council Member Randy Helms, District 2

Phone: (719) 385-5493

E-mail: Randy.Helms@coloradosprings.gov

*Council Member Nancy Henjum, District 5

Phone: (719) 385-5483

E-mail: Nancy.Henjum@coloradosprings.gov

*Councilmember Bill Murray, At-Large Representative

Phone: (719) 385-5485

E-mail: bill.murray@coloradosprings.gov

*Councilmember Mike O'Malley, District 6

Phone: (719) 385-5491 

E-mail: Mike.OMalley@coloradosprings.gov

*City Council President, Tom Strand

Phone: (719) 385-5486

E-mail: tom.strand@coloradosprings.gov

*Councilmember Wayne Williams, At-Large Representative

Phone: (719) 385-7720

Email: Wayne.williams@coloradosprings.gov

City Council Meetings

All City Council meetings are held in City Council Chambers which is on the third floor of Colorado Springs City Hall located at 107 N. Nevada Avenue, Colorado Springs, CO 80903.


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