2009 Rhode Island Code
Title 5 - Businesses and Professions
CHAPTER 5-10 - Barbers, Hairdressers, Cosmeticians, Manicurists and Estheticians
§ 5-10-8 - Issuance of licenses – Qualifications of applicants.

SECTION 5-10-8

   § 5-10-8  Issuance of licenses – Qualifications of applicants. – (a) The division shall issue licenses to persons engaged in or desiring to engage in the practice of barbering, hairdressing, and cosmetic therapy and/or manicuring, or esthetics and for instructing in any approved school of barbering or hairdressing and cosmetic therapy, and/or manicuring, or esthetics; provided, that no license shall be issued to any person under this chapter unless the applicant for the license:

   (1) Is at least eighteen (18) years of age;

   (2) Is a citizen of the United States of America or has legal entry into the country;

   (3) Is of good moral character;

   (4) Is a high school graduate or holds the equivalent;

   (5) Has satisfactorily completed the course of instruction in an approved school of barbering, hairdressing and cosmetic therapy, and/or manicuring or esthetics;

   (6) Has satisfactorily passed a written and a practical examination approved by the division to determine the fitness of the applicant to receive a license; and

   (7) Has complied with § 5-10-10 and any other qualifications that the division prescribes by regulation.

   (b) Notwithstanding the provision of subdivision (a)(4) of this section, on and after July 1, 1997, an applicant seeking licensure as a barber must be a high school graduate or hold the equivalent.