18.108.030 - License required. - Washington Statutes

License required.

(1) No person may practice or represent himself or herself as a massage practitioner without first applying for and receiving from the department a license to practice.

     (2) A person represents himself or herself as a massage practitioner when the person adopts or uses any title or any description of services that incorporates one or more of the following terms or designations: Massage, massage practitioner, massage therapist, massage therapy, therapeutic massage, massage technician, massage technology, massagist, masseur, masseuse, myotherapist or myotherapy, touch therapist, reflexologist, acupressurist, body therapy or body therapist, or any derivation of those terms that implies a massage technique or method.

[1995 c 198 § 15; 1987 c 443 § 3; 1975 1st ex.s. c 280 § 3.]