2011 Arizona Revised Statutes
Title 32 Professions and Occupations
32-501 Definitions


AZ Rev Stat § 32-501 (1996 through 1st Reg Sess 50th Legis) What's This?

32-501. Definitions

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. "Aesthetician" means a person who is licensed to practice skin care pursuant to this chapter.

2. "Aesthetics" means any one or a combination of the following practices if they are performed for cosmetic purposes:

(a) Massaging, cleansing, stimulating, manipulating, exercising, beautifying or applying oils, creams, antiseptics, clays, lotions or other preparations, either by hand or by mechanical or electrical appliances.

(b) Arching eyebrows or tinting eyebrows and eyelashes.

(c) Removing superfluous hair by means other than electrolysis.

3. "Board" means the board of cosmetology.

4. "Cosmetic purposes" means for the purpose of beautifying, preserving or conferring comeliness, excluding therapeutic massage and manipulations.

5. "Cosmetologist" means a person licensed to practice cosmetology pursuant to this chapter.

6. "Cosmetology" means any one or a combination of the following practices if they are performed for cosmetic purposes:

(a) Cutting, clipping or trimming hair.

(b) Massaging, cleansing, stimulating, manipulating, exercising, beautifying or applying oils, creams, antiseptics, clays, lotions or other preparations, either by hand or by mechanical or electrical appliances.

(c) Styling, arranging, dressing, curling, waving, permanent waving, straightening, cleansing, singeing, bleaching, dyeing, tinting, coloring or similarly treating hair.

(d) Arching eyebrows or tinting eyebrows and eyelashes.

(e) Removing superfluous hair by means other than electrolysis.

(f) Nail technology.

7. "Electrical appliances" means devices that use electrical current and includes lasers and IPL devices as defined in section 32-516.

8. "Instructor" means a person licensed to teach cosmetology, aesthetics or nail technology, or any combination thereof, pursuant to this chapter.

9. "Nail technician" means a person licensed to practice nail technology pursuant to this chapter.

10. "Nail technology" means:

(a) Cutting, trimming, polishing, coloring, tinting, cleansing or otherwise treating a person's nails.

(b) Applying artificial nails.

(c) Massaging and cleaning a person's hands, arms, legs and feet.

11. "Salon" means any of the following:

(a) An establishment operated for the purpose of engaging in the practice of cosmetology, aesthetics or nail technology, or any combination of the listed practices.

(b) An establishment together with a retrofitted motor vehicle for exclusive use as a mobile facility for the purpose of engaging in the practice of cosmetology, aesthetics or nail technology, or any combination of the listed practices that is operated and dispatched through the establishment.

(c) A retrofitted motor vehicle exclusively used as a mobile facility for the purpose of engaging in the practice of cosmetology, aesthetics or nail technology, or any combination of the listed practices that is operated and dispatched from a business that has a physical street address that is on file with the board.

12. "School" means an establishment operated for the purpose of teaching cosmetology, aesthetics or nail technology, or any combination of the listed practices.

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