§ 43-11-16 — Schools of cosmetology - Qualifications for licensure

1. A license must be granted to a school upon application to the board and payment of
the license fee if the school:
a. Is operated and maintained in premises separate from an establishment;
b. Requires training and instruction to be a minimum of:
(1) One thousand five hundred hours in cosmetology;
(2) Six hundred hours in esthetics;
(3) Three hundred fifty hours in manicuring; or
(4) Eleven hundred hours for advanced esthetics;
c. Employs at least two full-time equivalent licensed instructors and maintains a
maximum student-to-instructor ratio of twenty-four-to-one based on current
enrollment, except a school that provides training and instruction limited to
esthetics, advanced esthetics, or manicuring shall maintain a maximum
student-to-instructor ratio of twelve-to-one based on current enrollment;
d. Possesses apparatus and equipment sufficient for the proper and full teaching of
all subjects of its curriculum;
e. Maintains a record of the attendance and performance of each student;
f. Maintains regular class and instruction hours to include practical demonstrations
and theoretical studies supplemented by audiovisual aids, and studies in
disinfection, sterilization, infection control, and other safety measures consistent
with the practical and theoretical requirements as applicable to all curriculums;
g. Agrees not to:
(1) Permit any student to practice on any individual who is not an instructor or
registered student of the school until the student has completed at least
twenty percent of the total hours of instruction required under this chapter
and only if the practice is under the immediate direction and supervision of a
licensed instructor; or
(2) Compensate any of the school's basic students in any way; and
h. At the time of application for licensure and upon the renewal of a license,
furnishes to the board, and maintains in force at all times the license is in effect, a
bond in the penal sum of ten thousand dollars. The bond must run in favor of the
board, as agent of the state, and must be furnished by a surety company
authorized to do business in this state. It must be conditioned upon the bonded
school's providing its registered students with the full course of instruction

required under this chapter and must provide for a refund of a proportionate
amount of each student's tuition fee upon default.
2. A student enrolled in the training or who has completed the training of the esthetician
or cosmetologist curriculum in part or as a whole at a board-licensed school or who is
a holder of an active North Dakota license as a cosmetologist or esthetician license
may receive up to six hundred hours credit toward advanced esthetics requirements
as allowed by rule.
3. Any school that enrolls student instructors shall set up a course of training consisting
of:
a. A minimum of two hundred forty hours for student instructors who have held a
cosmetology, esthetician, advanced esthetician, or manicure license for two or
more years; or
b. Four hundred eighty hours for student instructors who have held a cosmetology,
esthetician, advanced esthetician, or manicure license less than two years.
4. A school may not have at any one time more than two student instructors for each full-
time equivalent licensed instructor actively engaged in the school.