Massage License Requirements in Maine
Verified against Office of Professional and Occupational Regulation (OPOR), Maine Department of Professional and Financial Regulation · 2026-07-24
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Maine requires a massage therapist license from the Office of Professional and Occupational Regulation (OPOR), within the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation, before anyone may practice massage therapy for compensation. Applicants must satisfy a competence requirement that, under the statute's literal wording, can be met either by passing an NCBTMB- or FSMTB-sponsored exam or by completing a 500-hour department-approved training course. Unusually among the states in this dataset, Maine licenses renew annually rather than every two or three years, and its currently-published rules impose no continuing education requirement at all.
Maine Massage License Requirements
| Licensing Authority | Office of Professional and Occupational Regulation (OPOR), Maine Department of Professional and Financial Regulation (OPOR) |
| Title | LMT |
| Training Hours | 500 hours — Department-approved massage therapy training program (32 M.R.S.A. §14306-D; 02-041 C.M.R. Ch. 300) |
| Exam | Examination sponsored by the NCBTMB or the Federation of State Massage Therapy Boards (FSMTB/MBLEx), or their successor/approved organizations (National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) or FSMTB) Alternatives accepted: NCBTMB National Certification Examination |
| Renewal Period | Not specified |
Fee Breakdown
| No fee amounts published by the source above. |
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Not required.
32 M.R.S.A. §14306-F(2) permits (but does not itself require) the department to establish continuing education rules by rulemaking. As of this verification, OPOR's currently-published massage therapist rules (02-041 C.M.R. Chapters 100–400, last amended 1999) contain no continuing education chapter or requirement — confirmed by reading the rule text directly rather than relying on a summary.
Licensure by Endorsement
32 M.R.S.A. §14306-H directs the commissioner to establish a license-by-endorsement process under Title 10, §8003-H (Maine's general professional-license-portability statute) for each OPOR-issued license type the commissioner deems appropriate, including massage therapy. No massage-specific endorsement criteria (e.g., minimum years licensed elsewhere) were found on the sourced pages.
Local & City Requirements
32 M.R.S.A. §14310 ('Home rule') expressly allows Maine municipalities to adopt or enforce ordinances regulating massage, massage practitioners, or massage therapists. Where a municipality has such an ordinance, an individual must comply with both the state chapter and any local provision that is more restrictive than the state law.
Sources
- 32 M.R.S.A. §14306-D — Qualifications; massage therapists
- Massage Therapy Licensure | Office of Professional and Occupational Regulation
- 32 M.R.S.A. §14306-F — Terms of license (renewal, continuing education authority)
- 32 M.R.S.A. §14306-G — Fees
- 32 M.R.S.A. §14306-H — Licensure by endorsement
- 32 M.R.S.A. §14310 — Home rule
- 02-041 C.M.R. Ch. 300 — Licensure/Registration Requirements (massage therapist curriculum guidelines)
Data last verified: 2026-07-24 | Source: 32 M.R.S.A. §14306-D — Qualifications; massage therapists