32-325. School license; application; qualifications
A. An applicant for a license to operate a school shall file a written application on a form prescribed by the board. The application shall be under oath and accompanied by the prescribed fee.
B. A course of instruction in a licensed school that teaches barbering shall consist of at least one thousand two hundred hours of instruction of not more than eight hours in any one working day. The course of instruction shall include:
1. At least two hundred fifty hours devoted to the study of the fundamentals of barbering, hygiene, bacteriology, histology of the hair, skin, muscles and nerves, structure of the head, face and neck, elementary chemistry relating to sterilization and antiseptics and diseases of the skin, hair and glands.
2. At least nine hundred fifty hours devoted to the practice and study of massaging and manipulating muscles of the scalp, face and neck, hair cutting, shaving and chemical work relating to permanent waves and hair straightening, coloring and bleaching.
C. A licensed school shall:
1. Be operated under the general supervision of a licensed instructor.
2. Have and maintain sufficient equipment to properly train all its students in the use, function and operation of equipment that is at the time in use in barbering.
3. Provide:
(a) Separate lecture rooms or classrooms.
(b) Locker spaces for students.
(c) An area appropriate in size for placing the training equipment.
4. Require that a student pass examinations in all phases of barbering before graduating.
5. Pass an inspection by the board before a school license is issued.
6. Furnish to the board and maintain in force a bond in the sum of $25, 000 that is approved by the board and executed by a corporate bonding company authorized to do business in this state. The bond shall be for the benefit of and subject to the claims of this state for failure to comply with the requirements of this chapter and conditioned that the school licensed pursuant to this chapter affords to its students the full course of instruction required pursuant to this chapter, in default of which the full amount of the tuition paid by the student shall be refunded.
D. Instructors shall not apply their time to private practice with or without compensation in a school or during school hours.
E. Students shall not teach other students.
F. Students shall be under the constant supervision of an instructor.
G. A school may offer courses on both cosmetology and barbering if an instructor licensed pursuant to chapter 5 of this title teaches the cosmetology courses and an instructor licensed pursuant to this chapter teaches the barbering courses.