TITLE 54

PROFESSIONS, VOCATIONS, AND BUSINESSES

CHAPTER 40

MASSAGE THERAPISTS

54-4009.  REQUIREMENTS FOR ISSUANCE OF LICENSE. Upon application to the board and the payment of the required fees, an applicant may be licensed as a massage therapist if the applicant meets all the requirements of this chapter and provides documentation acceptable to the board that he or she:

(1)  Has obtained a high school diploma or equivalent;

(2)  Is eighteen (18) years of age or older;

(3)  Has not been convicted, found guilty, or received a withheld judgment or a suspended sentence in this state or in any other state of a crime that is deemed relevant in accordance with section 67-9411(1), Idaho Code;

(4)  Has successfully completed a massage program registered pursuant to chapter 24, title 33, Idaho Code, or a comparable authority in another state that consists of the minimum of five hundred (500) in-class supervised hours of coursework and clinic work; and

(5)  Has successfully passed a nationally recognized competency examination in massage therapy that is approved by the board. The passage of this exam may have occurred prior to the effective date of this chapter.

History:

[54-4009, added 2012, ch. 261, sec. 1, p. 727; am. 2022, ch. 246, sec. 31, p. 808.]