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2025 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 644A - Cosmetology
NRS 644A.520 - Renewal of license or certificate of registration: Application; fees; penalties for late renewal; photograph of applicant; instruction relating to infection control and prevention; payment of outstanding balances owed to Board.

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NV Rev Stat § 644A.520 (2025)
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1. An application for renewal of any license or certificate of registration issued pursuant to this chapter must be:

(a) Made on a form prescribed and furnished by the Board;

(b) Made on or before the date for renewal specified by the Board;

(c) Accompanied by the applicable fee for renewal; and

(d) Accompanied by all information required to complete the renewal.

2. The fees for renewal of a license or a certificate of registration, as applicable, are:

(a) For nail technologists, electrologists, estheticians, advanced estheticians, hair designers, hair braiders, shampoo technologists and cosmetologists:

(1) For 2 years, not less than $50 and not more than $100.

(2) For 4 years, not less than $100 and not more than $200.

(b) For instructors:

(1) For 2 years, not less than $60 and not more than $100.

(2) For 4 years, not less than $120 and not more than $200.

(c) For cosmetological establishments:

(1) For 2 years, not less than $100 and not more than $200.

(2) For 4 years, not less than $200 and not more than $400.

(d) For schools of cosmetology:

(1) For 2 years, not less than $500 and not more than $800.

(2) For 4 years, not less than $1,000 and not more than $1,600.

3. For each month or fraction thereof after the date for renewal specified by the Board in which a license or a certificate of registration as a shampoo technologist is not renewed, there must be assessed and collected at the time of renewal a penalty of $50 for a school of cosmetology and $20 for a cosmetological establishment, all persons licensed pursuant to this chapter and persons registered as a shampoo technologist.

4. An application for the renewal of a license or a certificate of registration, as applicable, as a cosmetologist, hair designer, shampoo technologist, hair braider, esthetician, advanced esthetician, electrologist, nail technologist or instructor must be:

(a) Accompanied by a current photograph of the applicant; or

(b) If the application for the renewal of the license or certificate of registration, as applicable, is made online, accompanied by a current photograph of the applicant which is electronically attached to the application for renewal.

5. Before a person applies for the renewal of a license or certificate of registration, as applicable, as a cosmetologist, hair designer, shampoo technologist, hair braider, esthetician, advanced esthetician, electrologist or nail technologist, the person must:

(a) Complete at least 4 hours of instruction relating to infection control and prevention in a professional course or seminar approved by the Board; and

(b) Pay any outstanding fee, fine or other balance owed to the Board.

(Added to NRS by 1985, 1850; A 1987, 1070; 1991, 2059; 1995, 462; 1997, 2162; 2001, 1194; 2005, 2643, 2773, 2807; 2009, 2505; 2011, 3039; 2015, 605; 2021, 2693; 2023, 889)

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