317A.090 Requirements for schools.
No license shall be renewed or issued by the cosmetologist board to any cosmetology <br>school unless such school provides: <br>(1) As a prerequisite of graduation a prescribed course of instruction of not less than
eighteen hundred (1,800) hours in the case of a cosmetology school to be given <br>within an uninterrupted period with not more than eight (8) hours nor less than four <br>(4) hours of instruction a day, exclusive of Sundays; except that in the state area <br>vocational schools the eighteen hundred (1,800) hours of instruction may be offered <br>according to the schedule for other vocational classes in the school;
(2) Courses of instruction in histology of the hair, skin, nails, muscles and nerves of the
face and neck; elementary chemistry with emphasis on sterilization and antiseptics, <br>diseases of the skin, hair and glands, massaging and manipulating of the muscles of <br>the upper body; cutting, shaving, arranging, dressing, coloring, bleaching and tinting <br>the hair and such other courses as may be prescribed by regulation of the board;
(3) Such facilities, equipment, materials, and qualified instructors and apprentice
instructors as may be required by rules and regulations of the board adopted <br>pursuant to this chapter, but in no event shall any cosmetology school have fewer <br>than one (1) licensed instructor per twenty (20) students;
(4) The fee for the initial license of a beauty school shall be one thousand dollars
($1,000);
(5) No cosmetology school after being licensed for the first time, shall serve the public
until three hundred (300) hours of instruction has been taught;
(6) In compliance with KRS 317A.070 the board may revoke or suspend any license
issued by it if, in the judgment of the board, such school is not following the <br>requirements as set out in this chapter or such school does not comply with the rules <br>and regulations promulgated by the board in order to regulate the conduct of the <br>school and in order to supervise the proper education of the students.
Effective: July 15, 1980 <br>History: Amended 1980 Ky. Acts ch.188, sec. 259; and ch. 202, sec. 4, effective July
15, 1980. -- Created 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 354, sec. 9.
Legislative Research Commission Note. This section was amended by two 1980 acts
which do not appear to be in conflict and have been compiled together.
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