2012 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 37 — Professions and occupations
RS 37:595 — Requirements for schools

§595. Requirements for schools

A. All schools registered by the board shall do the following:

(1) Possess apparatus and equipment sufficient for the ready and full teaching of its entire curriculum.

(2) Have a total floor space of not less than thirty-five hundred square feet with a minimum of four hundred square feet of floor space for each classroom.

(3) Be supervised by a registered teacher of cosmetology in active practice, with at least twenty-four months of teaching experience in an accredited school of cosmetology approved by the board.

(4) Employ at least two instructors, who are teachers registered by the board, at least one of whom shall have been a registered teacher and in active practice for at least eighteen months.

(5) Maintain a record of the attendance of each student and a record of the progress of each student in achieving the required proficiency.

(6) Establish a grading system and require passage of examinations for issuance of diplomas.

(7) Maintain facilities as required by the board.

B. All registered cosmetology schools shall do the following:

(1) Offer a course of practical training and technical instruction extending over a period of not less than nine consecutive months and including not less than fifteen hundred hours for the basic course of cosmetology. The course of study shall include lectures, discussion, instructions, and mechanical application.

(2) Offer a course of practical training and technical instruction extending over a period of not less than three consecutive months and including not less than seven hundred fifty hours for the basic course of esthetics. This course of study shall include lectures, discussion, instructions, and mechanical application and shall include not less than three hundred hours of practical application and lecture and not less than two hundred hours of library study or research. The remaining hours may be made up of any combination of the above.

(3) Provide for a period of continuing study in esthetics, including a course of not less than six weeks duration and containing not less than two hundred hours of study.

(4) Offer a course of practical training and technical instruction extending over a period of not less than three consecutive months and including not less than five hundred hours for the basic course of manicuring. This course of study shall include lectures, discussion, instructions, and mechanical application and shall include not less than three hundred hours of practical application and lecture and not less than two hundred hours of library study or research.

(5) Provide for a period of continuing study in manicuring, including a course of not less than six weeks duration and containing not less than two hundred hours of study.

C. Any registered cosmetology school may offer a "brush up" course, which shall last not less than six weeks and contain not less than two hundred hours of study.

D. A student who has studied at a school licensed or registered by another state, territory, foreign country, or province, or another registered school within the state of Louisiana may transfer hours carried within the preceding three years, if approved by the enrolling school.

Acts 2001, No. 907, §2, eff. June 26, 2001; Acts 2010, No. 728, §1.