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The provisions in this chapter do not apply to:

(1) Persons giving massage treatments or baths in a private residence or a private social or athletic club not open to the public generally.

(2) Athletic coaches or trainers affiliated with public or private educational institutions or athletic organizations.

(3) Students enrolled in schools of massage performing such practices of massage as are incidental to their course of study.

(4) Any massage treatments given in any hospital, duly licensed nursing or convalescent home, or by physical therapists duly licensed, who treat patients only upon written prescription of a licensed doctor of medicine, or by any other person licensed by the state of Washington to treat the sick, injured, or infirm, or by any nurse under the direction of a person so licensed.

(5) Licensed beauty operators and barbers who perform only such acts of massage as are customarily given in beauty salons and barbershops for purposes of beautification only.

(6) Licensed massage therapists as defined in SCC 6.01.010(40). (Amended by Ord. 82-109 § 2, Nov. 10, 1982; Amended by Amended Ord. 86-099 § 48, Nov. 12, 1986).