EXEMPTIONS
Colorado Springs City Code § 2.3.105
in effect2.3.105: EXEMPTIONS:
The licensing requirements of this article do not apply to:
A. Public and private schools accredited by the state board of education or approved by the state division of private occupational schools;
B. Facilities providing massage services by employees of any governmental entity;
C. Training rooms of a recognized professional or amateur sports organization, dance troupe, bona fide athletic club, or other such athletic organization. For purposes of this subsection, a bona fide athletic club is an athletic club that receives ten percent (10%) or less of its gross income from providing massages to its members or the public;
D. Offices, clinics, and other facilities primarily used by state-licensed health care professionals, other than massage therapists, in the ordinary course of their health care profession. For purposes of this subsection, a licensed massage therapist may provide massage services in a facility that primarily is used for state-licensed health care services other than massage without obtaining a massage business license;
E. Barber shops, beauty salons, and other facilities at which barbers and cosmetologists licensed by the state provide massage services to the public in the ordinary course of their professions;
F. A place of business where a person offers to perform or performs massage for not more than seventy two (72) hours in any six-month period and the massage is part of a public or charity event;
G. A self-employed massage therapist operating out of the massage therapist's home or the client's home;
H. A spa or resort operated on the premises of a hotel with at least one hundred (100) rooms for overnight guests; or
I. A place of business which employs individuals who do not claim expressly or implicitly to be massage therapists and provides:
1. Practices using reflexology, auricular therapy, and meridian therapies that affect the reflexes of the body;
2. Practices using touch, words, and directed movements to deepen a person's awareness of movement patterns in his or her body, such as the Feldenkrais method, the Trager approach, and body-mind centering;
3. Practices using touch or healing touch to affect the human energy systems, such as reiki, shiatsu, and meridians;
4. Structural integration practices such as Rolfing and Hellerwork; and
5. The process of muscle activation techniques.
J. The Clerk shall promulgate rules and regulations for the exemption of premises used by self-employed massage therapists whose businesses satisfy exemption criteria set forth in the rules and regulations. Every exemption shall be issued in writing. In addition to such other requirements as the Clerk may establish, the exemption criteria shall require the massage therapist to provide:
1. A copy of the massage therapist's valid state massage therapist's license;
2. A copy of the massage therapist's valid government-issued photographic identity card;
3. A statement that the massage therapist is self-employed; and
4. Such other information as the Clerk requests. (Ord. 22-30)
Source: City of Colorado Springs, Colorado, City Code and City Charter (American Legal Publishing, codelibrary.amlegal.com)URL: https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/coloradospringsco/latest/coloradosprings_co/0-0-0-31302Fetched: 11/1/2026