CAMARILLO : City Loosens Limits on Massage Therapy
The Camarillo City Council has tentatively approved a measure that would expand opportunities for massage therapists to work in the city.
Under the measure, they will be able to run their own businesses without the supervision of a doctor or chiropractor, as required in the past.
Massage therapists will be able to obtain a home occupation permit as long as they obtain a business license and a health certificate and agree to file a photograph of themselves each year.
They must be over 21 and provide the city with three years of employment history as well as a diploma or certificate of graduation from a school where massage is taught.
Vice Mayor Charlotte Craven, who worked with local massage therapists to amend the current ordinance, said she hoped that the changes would not result in the proliferation of massage therapy signs throughout the city.
Councilman Michael Morgan agreed. “I wouldn’t want to see ‘Massage This’ and ‘Massage That’ all over town,” he said.
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