Ala. Admin. Code r. 532-X-1-.03

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 02, November 27, 2024

Section 532-X-1-.03 - [Effective 1/4/2025] [Effective until 11/14/2024] Applicability And Exemptions

(1) A student rendering massage therapy services in a massage therapy school environment under supervision of a licensed massage therapy instructor or an Alabama licensed massage therapist.

(2) Qualified members of other professions who are licensed and regulated under Alabama law, while they are in the course of rendering services within the scope of their license or regulation, are exempt from compliance with the Act and these rules and regulations, provided they do not represent or advertise themselves as massage therapists.

(3) A person giving massages to his or her immediate family is exempt from compliance with the Act and these rules and regulations, provided they do not represent themselves to the public as a massage therapist.

(4) A visiting massage therapy instructor from another state, territory or country engaged in teaching, who is in compliance with the licensure requirements and regulations in his or her place of residence, and does not teach more than one hundred (100) hours of continuing education per year, is exempt from compliance the Act and these rules and regulations, provided they do not advertise or practice massage therapy for the general public.

(5) Member of the Massage Therapy Emergency Rescue Team (MERT) or another nationally or internationally recognized disaster relief association is exempt from compliance with the Act and these rules and regulations during a time declared by the Governor to be a city, county or state emergency, and for a period not to exceed thirty (30) days after such declaration of emergency unless further extended by the Board. The relief association shall not advertise its practice of massage therapy services except in relation to the declared emergency and the association.

(6) Native American healers practicing traditional healing practices are exempt from compliance with the Act and these rules and regulations, provided they do not represent or advertise themselves as massage therapists. If a Native American healer is reported to the Board as either failing to meet the definition of a Native American healer, or as practicing massage therapy rather than traditional healing practices, such Native American healer shall submit to the Board at their request documentation of status as a Native American or evidence of the traditional nature of the healing practice challenged.

(7) Except as set forth above, the Act and these rules and regulations apply to any person who advertises or holds himself or herself out to the public as a massage therapist, or who performs massage therapy in the State of Alabama

Author: Keith E. Warren

Ala. Admin. Code r. 532-X-1-.03

New Rule: Filed January 29, 2001; effective 3/5/2001. Amended: Filed November 9, 2006; effective 12/14/2006.

Adopted by Alabama Administrative Monthly Volume XLII, Issue No. 12, September 30, 2024, eff. 9/20/2024; expires 106 days, 1/4/2025 (Emergency).

Statutory Authority:Code of Ala. 1975, §§ 34-43-4, 34-43-5.