§ 17-26-401 — License requirements

(a) No person, firm, or corporation shall conduct or operate a cosmetological establishment, school of cosmetology, beauty parlor, or any other place of business in which any one (1) or any combination of the occupations of a cosmetologist are taught or practiced, except the branch of manicuring as practiced in a barbershop, until licensed under the provisions of this chapter and complying with the provisions of this chapter relating to sanitation. (b) It shall be unlawful for any person to employ or to allow to be employed any person not licensed by the Cosmetology Technical Advisory Committee in or about a cosmetological establishment as a cosmetologist manager-operator, or as a manicurist, or as an electrologist, or as an aesthetician.

Legislative History

Acts 1955, No. 358, Art. 2, § 1; 1955, No. 358, Art. 7, § 3; 1985, No. 215, § 8; A.S.A. 1947, §§ 71-826, 71-850; Acts 2007, No. 223, § 32.