Rhode Island Massage Therapy Practice Act

The act regulates the practice of massage therapy as a licensed profession, making it unlawful to practice or to hold oneself out as a massage therapist without a license and protecting the professional title from use by others. It creates a licensing board, assigns supporting administrative duties to the licensing department, and sets out how licenses are obtained and kept — qualifications for licensure, licensure by endorsement, exemptions, fees, display, renewal, continuing education, inactive status, and restoration of expired licenses. It also defines grounds for discipline and establishes the machinery for enforcing them, including hearings before a hearing officer with subpoenas, sworn testimony, findings and recommendations, rehearing and administrative review, along with suspension, surrender and restoration of licenses, advertising restrictions, and civil penalties for unlicensed practice.

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