Sec. 10.65.03.02. Definitions

A. In this chapter, the following terms have the meanings indicated.

B. Terms Defined.

(1) "License holder" means an individual who is licensed by the Board to practice massage therapy.

(2) “Non bona fide treatment” means when a license holder or registration holder treats or examines a client in a way that involves sexual contact, but there is no therapeutic reason for the procedure, or the procedure falls outside of reasonable massage therapy.

(3) “Registration holder” means an individual who is registered by the Board to practice massage therapy in a setting that is not a health care setting.

(4) "Sexually exploitative relationship" means when sexual contact occurs in an existing therapeutic relationship between the massage therapist and the client or between the instructor and the student, or within a period of time after formal termination of the therapeutic or instructor-student relationship where the client or student may still be vulnerable to the power imbalance that exists in the relationship between the license holder or the registration holder and the client or student, even if the relationship may appear to be mutually consensual.

(5) "Therapeutic deception" means when a license holder or registration holder misrepresents sexual conduct as a legitimate form of treatment or instruction to a client or a student.