California Codes, Business and Professions Code - BPC, Division 2 — Healing Arts, Chapter 10.5 — Massage Therapy Act, Section 4618
The Legislature finds and declares that due to important health, safety, and welfare concerns that affect the entire state, establishing a uniform standard of certification for massage practitioners and massage therapists upon which consumers may rely to identify individuals who have achieved specified levels of education, training, and skill is a matter of statewide concern and not a municipal affair, as that term is used in Section 5 of Article XI of the California Constitution. Therefore, this chapter shall apply to all cities, counties, and cities and counties, including charter cities and charter counties.
Notes
Establishes legislative findings that uniform massage certification is a matter of statewide concern because of health, safety, and welfare interests, and extends the chapter to every city, county, and city and county, including charter jurisdictions. The provision both states the statewide-policy basis and makes the chapter applicable throughout those local governments.
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