New Mexico Register / Volume XXXVII,
Issue 5 / March 10, 2026
A. Age: The applicant must be 18 years of age or older on the date the application is submitted.
B. re-requisite education: The applicant must have completed high school or its equivalent.
C. Application fee: The applicant must pay the required application-processing fee as set forth in Subsection D of 16.7.3.8 NMAC of the
board's regulations.
D. Application form: The applicant must complete the application on an approved
form; incomplete applications
will not be accepted or will be returned to the applicant.
E. First
Aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR): The applicant must have completed four
contact course hours of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to include automatic external defibrillator (CPR/AED) and four contact course hours of
first aid and must provide proof, with the application, of current
certification in basic life support. No on-line
courses will be accepted. Courses must be maintained in current standing.
F. Photograph: The applicant must upload a recent headshot
only, color photograph, front-view of the face to their online portal.
[16.7.4.10 NMAC - Rp, 16.7.4.10 NMAC, 03/14/2023; A, 3/10/2026]
16.7.4.20 DISPLAY OF LICENSE:
A. While performing massage
therapy the licensee
must display their current license to practice massage
therapy in a conspicuous place of their practice location or place of their business.
B. Photograph: The applicant must upload a recent headshot only, color photograph, front-view of the face to their online portal.
[16.7.4.20 NMAC - Rp 16.7.4.21 NMAC, 11/15/2019; A, 3/10/2026]