Hours of instruction

1. To be eligible for a license as a massage therapist, an applicant must present a diploma or credentials issued by one or more schools of massage or school offering a massage program which indicate a cumulative total of seven hundred fifty hours of instruction as determined under this article. 2. As used in this article, a "clock-hour" or hour of classroom or practical instruction means a sixty-minute block of time consisting of a minimum of fifty minutes of instruction with appropriate breaks.