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(Commercial) and Home-based/Single Operators. Additionally, with this <br />being a coding and enforcement issue, wouldn’t any fines then come back <br />into the city’s funds? <br />https://www2.minneapolismn.gov/business-services/licenses-permits- <br />inspections/business-licenses/massage-tanning-tattoo/massage/ <br />Some of the issues with the proposed law changes: 309.03 does not allow <br />for Naturopathic Doctors which are registered, not licensed, in the State of <br />MN or Traditional Naturopaths to utilize massage techniques, even though <br />this is completely within their scopes of practice. An example of how this is <br />handled with the proposed State Legislative Bill is licensure would only be <br />required for someone who holds themselves out as a massage therapist, <br />and incidental massage is not prohibited. Saint Paul has also taken a <br />similar stance in their city massage law. <br />st <br />Next – what about Shamanic Practices (something protected under the 1 <br />Amendment of the Constitution, Freedom of Religion) that in many <br />traditions includes aspects or styles of massage? What about therapies <br />that include light-touch, non-manipulative therapies like Feldenkrais, <br />Somatic Bodywork, BodyTalk, yoga, Healing Touch, energy healing, <br />qigong, Ortho-Bionomy, Polarity Therapy, Rosen Method, Reflexology, <br />Reiki, and many others. Under the current Roseville law, those 146a, some <br />st <br />which are 1 Amendment protected therapies require a massage licensure <br />even though they have spiritual (religious) components to them. Even in <br />the Christian and Catholic Religions, massage is sacred (anointing of oils, <br />https://www.biblestudytools.com/bible-study/topical-studies/why-is- <br />anointing-oil-important-in-the-bible.html), but it is also sacred in <br />Buddhism (washing and anointing of oils on the feet, head mostly), as well <br />as Hinduism within Ayurvedic practices (https://beaire.com/en/aire- <br />magazine/ayurvedic-massage-hindu-techniques-and-principles), as well as <br />aspects of shamanic practices of the Hmong, Native Americans <br />(https://kripalu.org/resources/native-american-bodywork-practices), <br />Hawaiian (Lomi Lomi) and African <br />(https://panafricanbeauty.com/2016/04/10/african-massage/), just to <br />name a few. <br />Next, under 309.06(B), you are requiring Massage Therapists to produce a <br />photo identification with name and address upon demand by a police <br />th <br />officer, yet, two things, wouldn’t that be a violation of the 4 Amendment <br />of the US Constitution unless the officer has a reasonable suspicion of a <br />crime. Next, it is very common knowledge that minorities are told over <br />and over and over again and coached to not show ID to an officer. <br />Example: https://www.flexyourrights.org/faqs/when-can-police-ask-for-id/ <br />Lastly, why are we even burdening the Roseville Police Department with <br />enforcing this when massage therapists are already regulated under MN <br />Statute 146a? That law actually offers more consumer protections than <br />that of the current or proposed Roseville law. One – a practitioner must <br />provide a Client Bill of Rights that outlines the practitioner’s training <br />helping to educate and inform the client of the practitioner’s skills, which <br />instills more credibility than a license ever will. On the state side, <br />complaints are handled and investigated by the MN Department of Health, <br />Office of Unlicensed Complementary and Alternative Medicine. The State <br /> <br />