Title 43, Occupations and Professions

The board has the following powers and duties: 1. The board may adopt and enforce rules as necessary to implement this chapter. 2. The board periodically shall inspect or cause to be inspected all massage establishments. The board and the board's agents may enter and inspect any …

The governor may remove from office a member of the board for failure to maintain the qualifications for appointment, for neglect of duties as required by this chapter, for malfeasance in office and incompetency, or for unprofessional conduct. The governor may fill any vacancy ca…

1. Any individual who is eighteen years of age or older is entitled to apply to the board. An applicant may receive a license from the board as a massage therapist if the applicant: a. Presents a diploma or credentials issued by an approved massage therapy education program that …

The application fee to receive a license as a massage therapist is one hundred fifty dollars or a lesser amount established by the board.

The board shall require an applicant under this chapter to submit to a statewide and nationwide criminal history record check. The board may require a licensee under this chapter to submit to a statewide and nationwide criminal history record check. The nationwide criminal histor…

1. Each licensee shall display the licensee's original license or license renewal card at the licensee's place of practice. 2. Except as otherwise provided under this subsection, twenty-four hours of continuing education, or equivalent college credits, submitted every two years i…

1. The license of a massage therapist may be denied, revoked, suspended, or placed on probation for any of the following grounds: a. The licensee is guilty of fraud in the practice of massage or fraud or deceit in admission to the practice of massage. b. The licensee has been con…

The board may implement rules for record retention. Licensee information is retained by the board from the date a license is granted until five years after inactive status. Any official entry or a certificate of the absence of information, certified under the hand of the secretar…

The board members are entitled to receive compensation in an amount to be established by rule not to exceed one hundred dollars per day or prorated for partial days the member is actually engaged in the performance of other meetings and official duties and payment for mileage and…

1. Any individual who has been duly licensed in another city, county, state, territory, or jurisdiction of the United States, to practice massage, may upon paying a fee of one hundred fifty dollars or a lesser fee set by the board be granted a license to practice in this state wi…

Any person violating section 43-25-03 without being exempt under section 43-25-04 is guilty of a class B misdemeanor. In addition to the criminal penalties provided, the board may initiate a civil action in a court of competent jurisdiction as necessary to enforce this chapter or…