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2017 Idaho Statutes
Title 54 - PROFESSIONS, VOCATIONS, AND BUSINESSES
Chapter 5 - BARBERS
Section 54-507 - APPROVED BARBER COLLEGES — REQUIREMENTS — BOND.
Universal Citation: ID Code § 54-507 (2017)
54-507. Approved barber colleges — Requirements — Bond. (1) No school teaching the art or science of barbering shall operate in Idaho or be licensed as a school of barbering, unless the entrance requirements are equal to those which are required under section 54-506, Idaho Code. An approved college may teach special courses, but as a prerequisite to graduation the college must provide:
(a) A course of instruction for barber-stylists of not less than one thousand eight hundred (1,800) hours and include in its course of instruction the Idaho barber law and board rules and the scientific fundamentals for barbering: hygiene; bacteriology; histology of the hair, skin, nails, muscles and nerves; structure of the head, face and neck; elementary chemistry relating to sterilization and antiseptics; diseases of the skin, hair, glands and nails; massaging and manipulating the muscles of the upper body; haircutting; shaving; and arranging, dressing, curling, waving, straightening, coloring, bleaching and tinting of the hair; and
(b) A course of instruction for barbers of not less than nine hundred (900) hours and include in its course of instruction the Idaho barber law and board rules and the scientific fundamentals for barbering: hygiene; bacteriology; histology of the hair, skin, nails, muscles and nerves; structure of the head, face and neck; elementary chemistry relating to sterilization and antiseptics; diseases of the skin, hair, glands and nails; massaging and manipulating the muscles of the upper body; haircutting; shaving; and arranging and dressing of the hair.
(2) For the purpose of this chapter, a recognized approved barber school or college (hereinafter referred to as a college) shall be understood to be a college that has met the provisions of this chapter as approved by the board.
(3) No college in the state shall advertise or use any signs or terms to indicate that the college is approved, recognized, accredited, certified, or licensed unless said college is licensed by the board. Every college shall advertise as a college and make known to the public and customers that the work is being done by students.
(4) All instructors in an approved college must be licensed in the state of Idaho as a barber instructor or a cosmetology instructor.
(5) Every instructor in an Idaho licensed college shall devote his or her entire time during class hours to that of instructing the students and shall not apply his time to that of private or public practice during the school or class hours.
(6) A college furnishing satisfactory evidence that it is maintaining the requirements set forth in this chapter, within the state, shall, upon the payment of the required fee, be issued a license by the board.
(7) A license issued to a college must be renewed annually. Should a college fail or refuse to renew a license, said college shall cease to operate and be removed from the list of the approved colleges.
(8) The board may cancel or refuse to renew a license issued to a college upon proof that said college has failed or refused to meet with the requirements for approved colleges set forth in this chapter.
(9) One (1) instructor must be employed to each twenty (20) students or fractional part thereof and one (1) barber instructor must be employed on a full-time basis in each school or college.
(10) Every school or college licensed by the board shall deliver to the board a bond to the state of Idaho in the sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) in a form approved by the board and provide a copy of the bond annually together with the application for school license renewal. The bond shall be executed by a corporate surety company duly authorized to do business in this state, conditioned that such school or college shall continue to give its courses of instruction, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, until it has completed all such courses for which students have enrolled, and conditioned that such school or college shall fully comply with all promises or representations made to enrolled students as an inducement to such students to enroll. Any student so enrolled who may be damaged by reason of the failure of such school or college to comply with such conditions shall have a right of action in his or her own name, on such bonds, for such damage.
(11) A school or college is a postsecondary school. A school or college must be licensed by name by the state board of barber examiners. A school or college may admit as regular students only those individuals who:
(a) Have two (2) years of high school or an equivalent education as determined by the board; and
(b) Are at least sixteen and one-half (16 1/2) years of age.
History:
[(54-507) 1927, ch. 245, sec. 7, p. 389; am. 1929, ch. 261, sec. 5, p. 536; I.C.A., sec. 53-607; am. 1935, ch. 28, sec. 4, p. 44; am. 1961, ch. 204, sec. 3, p. 323; am. 1974, ch. 13, sec. 40, p. 138; am. 1975, ch. 84, sec. 5, p. 170; am. 1980, ch. 79, sec. 5, p. 163; am. 1990, ch. 163, sec. 4, p. 356; am. 2001, ch. 133, sec. 4, p. 475; am. 2003, ch. 21, sec. 2, p. 78; am. 2003, ch. 54, sec. 2, p. 197; am. 2005, ch. 275, sec. 1, p. 846; am. 2010, ch. 257, sec. 2, p. 656; am. 2011, ch. 221, sec. 1, p. 608; am. 2016, ch. 169, sec. 1, p. 469.]
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