HRS §452-19
Penalties for hiring unlicensed massage workers
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗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
A copy, taken August 20, 2026. The version published by the Legislature is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
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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