2016 Iowa Code
Title IV - PUBLIC HEALTH
Chapter 158 - BARBERING
Section 158.3 - License requirements.

158.3

License requirements.

1. An applicant shall be issued a license to practice barbering by the department when the applicant satisfies all of the following:

a. Presents to the department a diploma, or other like evidence, issued by a licensed barber school indicating that the applicant has completed the course of study prescribed by the board.

b. Completes the application form prescribed by the board.

c. Passes an examination prescribed by the board. The examination shall include both practical demonstrations and written or oral tests and shall not be confined to any specific system or method.

d. Presents a certificate, or satisfactory evidence, to the department that the applicant has successfully completed tenth grade, or the equivalent. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to students enrolled in a barber school maintained at an institution under the control of a director of a division of the department of human services.

2. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 1, any person who completes the application form prescribed by the board and who submits satisfactory proof of having been a licensed barber in another state for at least twelve months in the twenty-four month period preceding the submission of the application shall be allowed to take the examination for a license to practice barbering. However, the examination requirement shall be waived for those persons who submit evidence of licensure in another state which has a reciprocal agreement with the state of Iowa under the provisions of sections 147.44, 147.48, and 147.49.

[C27, 31, 35, §2585-b13, -b14; C39, §2585.27, 2585.28; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, §158.3, 158.4; C77, 79, 81, §158.3]

83 Acts, ch 96, §157, 159; 92 Acts, ch 1097, §6; 2009 Acts, ch 56, §7

Referred to in §157.12, §158.2, §158.4