2016 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 317B - ESTHETICIANS
.020 Kentucky Board of Hairdressers and Cosmetologists to administer KRS Chapter 317B -- Powers and duties.

Download as PDF 317B.020 Kentucky Board of Hairdressers and Cosmetologists to administer KRS Chapter 317B -- Powers and duties. (1) (2) (3) (4) The board shall administer and enforce this chapter and shall evaluate the qualifications of applicants for licensure and the issuance of licenses. The board may employ inspectors, staff, and other personnel as reasonably necessary to carry out this chapter. The compensation shall be established by the board. The board may promulgate administrative regulations, including but not limited to administrative regulations that: (a) Protect the health and safety of the public; (b) Protect the public against incompetent or unethical practice, misrepresentation, deceit, or fraud in the practice of esthetics or teaching of esthetic practices; (c) Set standards for the operation of the schools and salons; (d) Protect the students; (e) Establish the quality of equipment, supplies, materials, records, and furnishings required in esthetic salons or classrooms; (f) Establish course work and conduct of school owners, instructors, estheticians, esthetic salons, and cosmetology schools conducting classes in esthetic practices; (g) Set the requirements for the proper education and training of students; (h) Establish the qualifications of instructors of esthetic practices; (i) Set standards for the hours and courses of instruction in esthetic practices; (j) Establish the examinations of applicants for licenses; (k) Establish a code of ethics for persons licensed by the board; and (l) Establish fees required pursuant to this chapter. Administrative regulations pertaining to health and sanitation shall be approved by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services before becoming effective. Effective: July 12, 2012 History: Amended 2012 Ky. Acts ch. 152, sec. 19, effective July 12, 2012. -- Created 2003 Ky. Acts ch. 137, sec. 3, effective June 24, 2003. Legislative Research Commission Note (7/12/2006). 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 675, instructs the Reviser of Statutes to correct statutory references to agencies and officers whose names have been changed in the Act, as it confirms the establishment of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. Such a correction has been made in this section.