4577447 This rulemaking will repeal the tuberculin testing requirement for massage therapy licensure in the District of Columbia.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

 

NOTICE OF FINAL RULEMAKING

 

The Director of the Department of Health, pursuant to the authority set forth in Section 302(14) of the District of Columbia Health Occupations Revision Act of 1985 (“Act”), effective March 25, 1986 (D.C. Law 6-99; D.C. Official Code § 3-1203.02(14) (2012 Repl.)), and Mayor’s Order 98-140, dated August 20, 1998, hereby gives notice of his intent to adopt the following amendments to Chapter 75 (Massage Therapy), Title 17 (Business, Occupations, and Professions) of the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations (DCMR).

 

This rulemaking will repeal the tuberculin testing requirement for massage therapy licensure in the District of Columbia.

   

These rules were previously published in the D.C. Register as a proposed rulemaking on May 17, 2013, at 60 DCR 7022.  No written comments were received from the public in connection with this publication during the thirty (30)-day comment period and no changes have been made to the rulemaking. 

 

Final action to adopt the rules took place on September 19, 2013.  These rules will be effective upon publication of the notice in the D.C. Register.

 

CHAPTER 75, MASSAGE THERAPY, of TITLE 17, BUSINESS, OCCUPATIONS, AND PROFESSIONS, OF THE DCMR is amended as follows:

 

Section 7516, TUBERCULIN TEST REQUIRED, is amended to read as follows:

 

7516                REPEALED.