§ 33-12-127 — Licenses required; failure to comply; fines

Wyoming § 33-12-127

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 33: Professions and Occupations
• Ch. 12: COSMETOLOGY

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(a) From and after the effective date of this act, no
person shall engage in the practice or instruction of
cosmetology, manicuring or nail technology, esthetics or hair
styling and no place shall be maintained and operated for the
practice or teaching of cosmetology, manicuring or nail
technology, esthetics or hair styling except under a license
issued in compliance with this act and the rules adopted
pursuant to this act.
(b) No school or salon shall employ, hire or in any manner
allow any individual to practice or teach cosmetology,
manicuring or nail technology, esthetics or hair styling unless
that individual has a current license to practice or teach the
applicable specific practice of cosmetology, manicuring or nail
technology, esthetics or hair styling.
(c) The licenses required in subsections (a) and (b) of
this section shall:
(i) Be issued in the name of the licensed
cosmetologist, manicurist or nail technician, esthetician, hair
stylist, instructor, owner of the salon or owner of the school;
(ii) State the licensing and expiration dates; and
(iii) Be displayed at all times in a conspicuous
place in the principal office, place of business or employment
of the licensee.
(d) Any person who practices or teaches cosmetology,
manicuring or nail technology, esthetics or hair styling for
compensation, or who carries on any business, practice or
operation governed by this act, without the applicable license
when a license is required, is guilty of a misdemeanor
punishable, upon conviction, by a fine of not more than seven
hundred fifty dollars ($750.00).
(e) Upon request of a licensee, the board may issue a
certificate to the licensee to practice activities authorized
under the license as an independent contractor within a salon.
The board may charge an additional fee for the issuance of the
certificate as established pursuant to W.S. 33-12-139.