2012 Arkansas Code
Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses
Subtitle 3 - Medical Professions
Chapter 86 - Massage Therapists
Subchapter 3 - -- Registration
§ 17-86-313 - Grandfather clause -- Ability to upgrade status.
(a) (1) In the event the qualifications for a specific license are increased or changed, a person holding a particular license from the Arkansas State Board of Massage Therapy may continue to hold that license or may upgrade from massage therapist to master massage therapist or from master massage therapist to massage therapy instructor, without meeting current requirements for the particular license the person held at the time of the increase or change.
(2) It is the express intent of the legislature that in the event the qualifications for a specific license are increased or changed, that those persons who hold the license or licenses will be able to hold that specific license or upgrade licensure status without completing current requirements for the license held at the time of the increase or change.
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