2019 Tennessee Code
Title 63 - Professions of the Healing Arts
Chapter 30 - Reflexology Practitioners Registration Act of 2001
§ 63-30-102. Chapter definitions.
- As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) “Certification” means completion of a two hundred (200) hour reflexology only course offered by an institution approved by the Tennessee higher education commission or its equivalent in other states;
(2) “Client” means any person who engages the services of a reflexology practitioner;
(3) “Commissioner” means the commissioner of health or the commissioner's designee;
(4) “Department” means the department of health;
(5) “Division” means the division of health-related boards in the department of health;
(6) “Reflexology” means the application of specific pressures to reflex points in the hands and feet only;
(7) “Reflexology practitioner” or “reflexologist” means any person who engages in the practice of reflexology for compensation and who has completed a study of the principles of reflexology, anatomy and physiology generally included in a regular course of study of reflexology; and
(8) “Registration” means satisfying the requirements for registration by the department of health.
