PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 678

CHAPTER 678
(House Bill 51)

AN ACT concerning

State Board of Nursing Chiropractic Examiners - Licensure Certification of Massage

Therapists

FOR the purpose of requiring the State Board of Nursing Chiropractic Examiners to
adopt regulations for the licensure certification and practice of massage therapists;
defining certain terms; authorizing the Board of Nursing Chiropractic Examiners to
set certain fees; establishing the Massage Therapy Advisory Committee within the
Board of Nursing Chiropractic Examiners; specifying the powers and duties of the
Advisory Committee; requiring an individual to be licensed certified by the Board of
Nursing Chiropractic Examiners before the individual may practice massage
therapy; making certain exceptions; specifying the qualifications for a certain license
certificate; authorizing the issuance and renewal of a certain license certificate;
establishing certain grounds for discipline; providing that this Act does not limit the
rights of certain individuals to practice certain occupations; prohibiting certain acts;
making certain exceptions; establishing certain penalties; providing for the
construction of this Act; requiring the initial members of the Massage Therapy
Advisory Committee to be eligible to be licensed certified under this Act; providing
for the effective date of this Act; and generally relating to the licensure certification
of individuals to practice massage therapy in this State.

BY adding to

Article - Health Occupations

Section 8-7A-01 through 8-7A-10 3-5A-01 through 3-5A-11, inclusive, to be

under the new subtitle "Subtitle 7A 5A. Licensure Certification of Massage

Therapists"

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1994 Replacement Volume and 1995 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Health Occupations

SUBTITLE 7A. 5A. LICENSURE CERTIFICATION OF MASSAGE THERAPISTS.
8-7A-01. 3-5A-01.

(A)    IN THIS SUBTITLE THE FOLLOWING WORDS HAVE THE MEANINGS
INDICATED.

(B)     "BOARD" MEANS THE STATE BOARD OF NURSING CHIROPRACTIC
EXAMINERS.

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