§ 37:3071 — License of electrologists; qualifications; examinations; issuance of license; waiver

Louisiana § 37:3071

• Jurisdiction: Louisiana
• Title 37: Professions and Occupations

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§3071. License of electrologists; qualifications; examinations; issuance of license; waiver
A. No person shall engage or attempt to engage in the practice of electrology in this
state who does not hold a valid license issued by the board in accordance with the provisions
of this Chapter.
B.(1) The board shall license as an electrologist and issue an appropriate certificate
to any person who files with it a verified application therefor, accompanied by the application
fee required by this Part, together with evidence, verified by oath and satisfactory to the
board, that he meets all of the following qualifications:
(a) He is at least eighteen years of age.
(b) He is of good moral character.
(c) He is free of any infectious disease.
(e) He has graduated from an accredited high school.
(f) He has, after high school graduation, successfully completed a course in practical
training in electrolysis in a school of electrology that maintains the standards established and
approved by the board or has completed a like number of hours in the subject areas specified
in an apprenticeship program approved by the board at the time of certification.
(g) He has passed an examination given and graded by the board, which shall consist
of a written examination and a practical demonstration of abilities.
(h) He has paid any other fees required by this Chapter.
(2) Each applicant shall provide his subject for the practical demonstration. Within
ten days after each examination, the official in charge shall deliver the question-and-answer
papers to the board. The board shall examine and rate the answers and shall transmit an
official report to each applicant for license stating the rating of the candidate in each subject
and whether or not the board approves the candidate for a license. If a candidate fails one
or more parts of an examination, he may take the parts in which he has failed in a subsequent
examination upon payment of a fifteen-dollar examination fee. If after two attempts the
examination is not satisfactorily completed, the candidate thereafter shall be required to
repeat and take the entire examination within one year of the date of the original
examination.
(3) Each such school of electrology shall include at least four hundred fifty hours of
clinical experience, one hundred fifty hours of lectures on insertion techniques, modalities,
healing, regrowth problems, and office management.
C. Repealed by Acts 1999, No. 530, §2, eff. Aug. 1, 1999.
D. After investigation of the applicant and other evidence submitted, the board shall
notify each applicant that the application and evidence submitted for consideration is
satisfactory and accepted, or unsatisfactory and rejected. If an application is rejected, the
notice shall state the reasons for the rejection.
E. The examination shall be given four times each year at such time and place and
under such supervision as the board determines, and specifically at such other times as in the
opinion of the board the number of applicants warrants. The board shall designate the date,
time, and place of examination and shall give public notice thereof and, in addition, shall
notify each person who has made application for examination to the board.
F.(1) In addition to the minimum requirements and standards for licensure
established by the board, any person licensed or qualified to practice as an electrologist in
any other state applying to practice as an electrologist in Louisiana shall be required to
submit adequate and sufficient proof of six hundred hours of recognized and approved
educational training in the study of electrology and to have successfully achieved a minimum
test score on the appropriate board exam.
(2) Repealed by Acts 2001, No. 792, §2.
(3) When an applicant fails to achieve the minimum test score on the board exam on
his first attempt, he may take the exam again, pursuant to this Chapter.
(4) An applicant shall pass all parts of the board examination within two years of his
first examination date. Failure to achieve such minimum test score within such time period
shall require the applicant to successfully complete six hundred hours of educational training
in the study of electrology in a school licensed or approved by the board.
G. The board may license any person as an electrologist technician who has
successfully completed the provisions of R.S. 37:3063(C)(2) and passes the appropriate
written and practical examinations. The electrologist technician must work under the direct
supervision of a licensed electrologist or licensed electrologist instructor and provide the
name of the supervising electrologist to the board. A licensed electrologist technician may
upgrade his license to that of an electrologist by completing the additional theory and
practical hours in school or an electrologist apprenticeship program and by passing the
appropriate board examination.

Legislative History

Added by Acts 1979, No. 748, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1980. Amended by Acts 1983, No. 605, §1; Acts 1984, No. 942, §1; Acts 1985, No. 128, §1; Acts 1989, No. 459, §1; Acts 1993, No. 819, §1; Acts 1999, No. 530, §2, eff. Aug. 1, 1999; Acts 2001, No. 792, §§1 and 2; Acts 2022, No. 271, §2.