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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. LICENSURE CERTIFICATION OF MASSAGE THERAPISTS.
8-7A-01.

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

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

(C) "LICENSE CERTIFICATE" MEANS, UNLESS THE CONTEXT REQUIRES
OTHERWISE, A LICENSE CERTIFICATE ISSUED BY THE BOARD TO PRACTICE
MASSAGE THERAPY.

(D) "LICENSED CERTIFIED MASSAGE THERAPIST" MEANS AN INDIVIDUAL
WHO IS LICENSED CERTIFIED BY THE BOARD TO PRACTICE MASSAGE THERAPY.

(E) "MASSAGE THERAPY ADVISORY COMMITTEE" MEANS THE COMMITTEE
ESTABLISHED UNDER § 8-7A-04 OF THIS SUBTITLE.

(F) (1) "MASSAGE THERAPY" MEANS THE MANIPULATION OF USE OF
MANUAL TECHNIQUES ON SOFT TISSUES OF THE HUMAN BODY BY MANUAL
TECHNIQUES INCLUDING EFFLEURAGE (STROKING), PETRISSAGE (KNEADING),
TAPOTEMENT (TAPPING), STRETCHING, COMPRESSION, VIBRATION, AND FRICTION,
WITH OR WITHOUT THE AID OF HEAT LIMITED TO HOT PACKS AND HEATING PADS,
COLD WATER. OR NONLEGEND TOPICAL APPLICATIONS, FOR THE PURPOSE OF
IMPROVING CIRCULATION, ENHANCING MUSCLE RELAXATION, RELIEVING
MUSCULAR PAIN, REDUCING STRESS, OR PROMOTING HEALTH AND WELL-BEING.

(2) "MASSAGE THERAPY" DOES NOT INCLUDE:

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