2015 Tennessee Code
Title 62 - Professions, Businesses and Trades
Chapter 3 - Barbers
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62-3-123. Certification of barbering schools -- Instructions -- Services -- Record Keeping. [Effective until January 1, 2016. See the version effective on January 1, 2016.]

(a) Any person, firm or corporation desiring a certificate of registration to own, operate or conduct a barber school or college of barbering shall submit an application to the state board of cosmetology and barber examiners on the prescribed form. In order to be eligible to receive the certificate, the applicant must:

(1) Require, as a prerequisite to graduation, a course of no less than one thousand five hundred (1,500) hours of continuous instruction, including no more than eight (8) hours per day or forty (40) hours per week, in the following subjects:

(A) Scientific fundamentals of barbering, hygiene and bacteriology, histology of the hair, skin, muscles and nerves;

(B) Structure of the head, face and neck;

(C) Elementary chemistry relating to sterilization and antiseptic;

(D) Diseases of the skin, hair and glands;

(E) Massaging and manipulating of the muscles; and

(F) All of the practices of barbering included in § 62-3-105; and

(2) Provide at least one (1) registered barber instructor or barber instructor assistant for every fifteen (15) students enrolled.

(b) No barber student may render clinical services on patrons until the student has completed at least one hundred (100) hours of instruction.

(c) No barber school or college may operate without the presence of a registered barber instructor.

(d) A school shall employ at least one (1) licensed barber instructor for each barber instructor assistant who shall be under the personal supervision of the licensed barber instructor.

(e) Each school, including any public school conducting a vocational education program in the field of barbering, shall:

(1) Keep a daily record of the attendance of each student enrolled; and

(2) Submit to the board on the prescribed form a monthly progress report on each student enrolled.