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317A.090 Requirements for schools.
No license shall be renewed or issued by the cosmetologist board to any cosmetology
school unless such school provides:
(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
within an uninterrupted period with not more than eight (8) hours nor less than four
(4) hours of instruction a day, exclusive of Sundays; except that in the state area
vocational schools the eighteen hundred (1,800) hours of instruction may be offered
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, diseases of the skin, hair, and glands, and massaging and manipulating
of the muscles of the upper body; cutting, shaving, arranging, dressing, coloring,
bleaching, and tinting the hair and such other courses as may be prescribed by
administrative regulation of the board;
(3) Such facilities, equipment, materials, and qualified instructors and apprentice
instructors as may be required by administrative regulations of the board adopted
pursuant to this chapter, but in no event shall any cosmetology school have fewer
than one (1) licensed instructor per twenty (20) students present for instruction;
(4) The fee for the initial license of a cosmetology 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, the school is not following the
requirements as set out in this chapter or such school does not comply with the
administrative regulations promulgated by the board in order to regulate the conduct
of the school and in order to supervise the proper education of the students.
Effective: July 12, 2012
History: Amended 2012 Ky. Acts ch. 152, sec. 9, effective July 12, 2012. -- 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.
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