2021 Kentucky Revised Statutes Chapter 317A - Cosmetologists 317A.090 Requirements for schools of cosmetology, esthetic practices, and nail technology.
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317A.090 Requirements for schools of cosmetology, esthetic practices, and nail
technology.
No license shall be issued or renewed by the board to any cosmetology school or school
of esthetic practices or school of nail technology unless such school provides:
(1) The name of the proposed school;
(2) A statement that the proposed school is authorized to operate educational programs
beyond secondary education;
(3) As a prerequisite of graduation, a prescribed course of instruction of not less than
one thousand five hundred (1,500) hours for a cosmetology school or seven hundred
fifty (750) hours for a school of esthetic practices, or four hundred fifty (450) hours
for a school of nail technology, 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 required hours of
instruction may be offered according to the schedule for other vocational classes in
the school;
(4) Courses of instruction in histology of the hair, skin, nails, muscles, and nerves of
the face and neck; elementary chemistry with emphasis on sterilization, diseases of
the skin, hair, and glands, and massaging and manipulating of the muscles of the
upper body; cutting, shaving, arranging, dressing, chemical treatment of the hair and
such other courses as may be prescribed by administrative regulation of the board;
(5) 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 no cosmetology school or school of esthetic practices or school of
nail technology shall have fewer than one (1) licensed instructor per twenty (20)
students present for instruction;
(6) No cosmetology school or school of esthetic practices or school of nail technology,
after being licensed for the first time, shall serve the public until one hundred fifty
(150) hours of instruction has been taught; and
(7) 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 the 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: March 30, 2018
History: Amended 2018 Ky. Acts ch. 46, sec. 21, effective March 30, 2018. -Amended 2017 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 2, effective June 29, 2017. -- Amended 2015
Ky. Acts ch. 110, sec. 4, effective June 24, 2015. -- 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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