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.]
Structure Idaho Code
Title 54 - PROFESSIONS, VOCATIONS, AND BUSINESSES
Chapter 40 - MASSAGE THERAPISTS
Section 54-4002 - DEFINITIONS.
Section 54-4004 - PROHIBITIONS.
Section 54-4005 - LICENSE REQUIRED.
Section 54-4006 - BOARD OF MASSAGE THERAPY.
Section 54-4007 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE BOARD.
Section 54-4009 - REQUIREMENTS FOR ISSUANCE OF LICENSE.
Section 54-4010 - ENDORSEMENT LICENSURE.
Section 54-4011 - LICENSE RENEWAL.
Section 54-4012 - LICENSING OF EXISTING MASSAGE PRACTITIONERS.
Section 54-4013 - DISCIPLINARY ACTION.