Ordinance For Industry of Massage Therapy in Chicago

As in the rest of the states of US, the legal authority in Illinois is doing regulation on the industry of massage therapy in Chicago and in other cities, to make certain the quality of their healthcare services. Other states of US are also doing the same in their whole state. The approximate income they could be getting from massage industry in their states is above $16 billion. This makes it clear that there are many healthcare institutions in the industry of massage in these states.

Illinois have passed an ordinance for this matter. According to this ordinance, opening new institutions of massage therapy in Chicago are strictly not allowed, excluding when there is a special type of authorization involved. In other words, only those businesses of massage who have official authorization can provide their services in Illinois. While those massage institutes that are already providing their services can continue their business with no need of providing any authorization or changing their location. This could be considered as unjust act for those new businesses who were intending to provide their services in Illinois as they will have to comply with all the regulations. This ordinance could discourage opening of new institutes of massage in Chicago.

After this ordinance became known to the massage industry, they began to protest against it. However, it was all for nothing because the government still passed it, even after so much protest. Many of us might be thinking that why would government pass such an ordinance?

Majority of population in Illinois believes that the government has abandoned massage industry and is ignoring its popularity. But the truth might not be this simple. People may be thinking that this ordinance has imposed a ban on new businesses of massage therapy in Chicago, while in reality it has only imposed a simple limitation on them. This will result in lesser number of massage institution, but with the surety of the quality of their services. Some people might think it as a cruelty, but it might be actually for the welfare of population. Although, this ordinance might still discourage new massage businesses and some qualified therapist might also get reluctant in providing their services in this state.

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