2025 Code of Georgia
Title 43 - Professions and Businesses (Chs. 1 — 51)
Chapter 10 - Barbers and Cosmetologists (§§ 43-10-1 — 43-10-20)

Annotations

Opinion Notes

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Public schools not subject to registration requirements of cosmetology provisions. —

State Board of Cosmetology does not have authority to require a tuition-free technical and vocational school operated as part of the state’s public school system under either the State Board of Education or a local board of education to register and otherwise perform under cosmetology provisions. 1963-65 Ga. Op. Att'y Gen. 289.

To permit a regulatory board, such as that created by Ga. L. 1963, p. 45, §§ 4 and 8, to administer a course of study in the public school system, to impose a registration fee upon a public school and a license fee upon teachers therein, and to require a registration fee from students taking a course of study in such public schools would be in violation of former Code 1933, § 32-403 (see now O. C. G. A. §§ 20-2-11, 20-2-130 et seq. and 20-2-671); therefore, public schools offering courses in cosmetology are not required to pay a school registration fee or a teachers’ license fee, and students in such schools taking cosmetology courses are not required to pay a students’ registration fee required by the cosmetology provisions. 1963-65 Ga. Op. Att'y Gen. 250.

Graduates of approved public school program may take licensure examination. —

If cosmetology courses offered in public school systems are taught by qualified teachers, cover courses of instruction and number of hours required by the State Board of Cosmetology and the cosmetology provisions, and meet sanitary and other standards required of private schools or colleges, the graduates of such courses in the public school system are qualified to take the examination for certificate of registration upon payment of the required fee and meeting the other qualifications. 1963-65 Ga. Op. Att'y Gen. 250.

Public schools not necessarily accredited within meaning of the cosmetology provisions. —

Course of instruction in cosmetology taught in a tuition-free technical and vocational school as a part of the state’s public school system under either the State Board of Education or a local board of education is not necessarily “an accredited school” within the meaning of the cosmetology provisions. 1963-65 Ga. Op. Att'y Gen. 250.

Research References & Practice Aids

Administrative rules and regulations.

General information: organization, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Georgia State Board of Cosmetology, Chapter 130-1.

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d.

2 Am. Jur. 2d, Administrative Law, § 21 et seq. 15A Am. Jur. 2d, Commerce, §§ 1 et seq., 90 et seq. 16A Am. Jur. 2d, Constitutional Law, §§ 266, 284 et seq., 332, 339 et seq. 39 Am. Jur. 2d, Health, §§ 1 et seq., 26 et seq. 51 Am. Jur. 2d, Licenses and Permits, § 1 et seq. 72 Am. Jur. 2d, States, Territories and Dependencies, §§ 42, 64 et seq. 73 Am. Jur. 2d, Statutes, §§ 17 et seq., 58 et seq.

C.J.S.

15 C. J. S., Commerce, §§ 9 et seq., 83 et seq., 111 et seq. 16 C. J. S., Constitutional Law, § 280 et seq. 16A C. J. S., Constitutional Law, § 580 et seq. 16B C. J. S., Constitutional Law, §§ 1055-1058, 1444-1448. 16D C. J. S., Constitutional Law, §§ 2085, 2086. 39A C. J. S., Health and Environment, §§ 4 et seq., 41, 47, 61 et seq. 53 C. J. S., Licenses, § 6 et seq. 67 C. J. S., Officers and Public Employees, § 125 et seq. 73 C. J. S., Public Administrative Law and Procedure, § 50 et seq. 73 C. J. S., Public Administrative Law and Procedure, § 146 et seq. 81A C. J. S., States, § 120 et seq. 82 C. J. S., Statutes, §§ 203, 281.

ALR.

Failure to procure occupational or business license or permit as affecting validity or enforceability of contract, 30 A. L. R. 834; 42 A. L. R. 1226; 118 A. L. R. 646.

Validity, construction, and effect of statute or ordinance regulating beauty shops, or beauty culture schools, 56 A. L. R.2d 879.

Coverage and exceptions in beauty shop liability policy, 77 A. L. R.2d 1258.

Applicability of res ipsa loquitur doctrine in action for injury to patron of beauty salon, 93 A. L. R.3d 897.

Liability of cosmetology school for injury to patron, 81 A. L. R.4th 444.

Hierarchy Notes:

O. C. G. A. Title 43