§ 32-551 — School licenses; applications; barbering school requirements; supervision; students

A. A person is entitled to a license to operate a school if:

1. The person pays the prescribed fee.

2. The person furnishes a surety bond in the amount of $10,000 approved by the board and executed by a corporate bonding company authorized to do business in this state. The bond shall be for the benefit of and subject to the claims of the state for failure to comply with the requirements of this chapter and any student who fails to receive the full course of instruction required under this chapter.

3. The person submits to the board under oath an application for a school license on a form supplied by the board and other documentation required by the board in its rules.

4. The proposed school passes an inspection by the board before it opens.

B. A course of instruction in a licensed school that teaches barbering shall consist of at least one thousand two hundred hours of instruction. The course of instruction shall include:

1. At least two hundred fifty hours devoted to the study of the fundamentals of barbering, hygiene, bacteriology, histology of the hair, skin, muscles and nerves, structure of the head, face and neck, elementary chemistry relating to sterilization and antiseptics and diseases of the skin, hair and glands.

2. At least nine hundred fifty hours devoted to the practice and study of massaging and manipulating muscles of the scalp, face and neck, haircutting, shaving and chemical work relating to permanent waves and hair straightening, coloring and bleaching.

C. A licensed school shall be operated under the general supervision of a licensed instructor.

D. Students may not teach other students at a licensed school.

E. A school that holds a school license in barbering and a school license in cosmetology may offer courses on both cosmetology and barbering if an instructor licensed as a cosmetologist teaches the cosmetology courses and an instructor licensed as a barber teaches the barbering courses.