HRS §452-19
Penalties for hiring unlicensed massage workers
If you run a massage business and you know someone working there is not licensed or permitted, you are breaking the law. Allowing an unlicensed person to give massages is a crime. This is a misdemeanor.
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The statute, as written — Penalties
Any owner, operator, manager, or licensee in charge of or in control of a massage therapy establishment who knowingly employs a person who is not licensed as a massage therapist or who has not received a permit as a massage therapist apprentice as provided in this chapter, or who allows an unlicensed person to perform, operate, or practice massage is guilty of a misdemeanor.
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