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317.540 Requirements for barber schools.
No license shall be renewed or issued by the barber board to any barber school, unless the
school provides:
(1) The name of the proposed school;
(2) A statement that the proposed school is authorized to operate educational programs
beyond secondary education;
(3) As a prerequisite of graduation, a prescribed course of instruction of not less than
fifteen hundred (1,500) hours shall be given within a reasonable period with not
more than eight (8) hours nor less than four (4) hours of instruction a day, exclusive
of Sundays;
(4) Courses of instruction in histology of the hair, skin, muscles, and nerves of the face
and neck; elementary chemistry with emphasis on sterilization and antiseptics;
disease of the skin, hair, and glands; massaging and manipulating of the muscles of
the upper body; cutting, shaving, arranging, dressing, coloring, bleaching, and
tinting the hair and such other courses as may be prescribed by regulation of the
board; and
(5) Such facilities, equipment, materials, and qualified teachers as may be required by
rules and regulations of the board adopted pursuant to this chapter, but in no event
shall any school have fewer than one (1) licensed teacher per twenty (20) students
enrolled, or more than two (2) students per chair.
Effective: June 24, 2015
History: Amended 2015 Ky. Acts ch. 110, sec. 3, effective June 24, 2015. -- Amended
2013 Ky. Acts ch. 51, sec. 6, effective June 25, 2013. -- Amended 2006 Ky. Acts ch.
32, sec. 6, effective July 12, 2006. -- Amended 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 57, sec. 2, effective
July 15, 1980. -- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 354, sec. 19. -- Amended 1966 Ky.
Acts ch. 145, sec. 6. -- Created 1960 Ky. Acts ch. 233, sec. 13.
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