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11..1 Council acts on the ordinance if they so approve it the modifiers would complete the ordinance and it would be placed in its standard form. The specific intent is to follow state statutes and to place massage therapists with qualifications in the exempt category. As Council requested we did acquire from the state Private Occupation Schools, Department of Higher Education a complete booklet listing all the accredited schools (See Attachment B). If someone applies for a specific business license, we would review the qualifications, comparing them against the accredited list and our own code. If they met those standards we would then approve the license. Mayor Fauson called for public comments. steven L. Jackson, Colorado Chapter of the AMTA, 121 So. Madison st. #B, Denver, Colorado Jackson: I am a member of the Law and Legislation Committee for the AMTA and we track all the changes throughout the State of Colorado in massage parlor and massage therapy codes. I was a little puzzled looking at your ordinance. Throughout the ordinance you have stricken out massage establishment and left massage parlor in the code. That is the exact opposite of what Denver is doing. I am curious as to why that is occurring. Franklin: One of the essences of the changes was to follow the intent of the state statutes. There still exists a massage parlor code and there still exists in this proposed revision a massage parlor code in the City of Louisville. The intent was specifically to exempt, as does the state statute, massage therapists who are qualified and accredited, to put them in the category of exempt status, but to otherwise minimize the amount of changes to the massage parlor code so the City of Louisville would still regulate 4