Qualifications for certificate of registration as registered barber; temporary permit

1. Law
2. Mississippi Code
3. Professions and Vocations
4. Barbers
5. Qualifications for certificate of registration as registered barber; temporary permit

1. To be eligible for enrollment at a barbering school approved by the Board of Barber Examiners, a person shall have a high school education or its equivalent, and/or shall have satisfactorily passed the ability-to-benefit examinations approved by the U.S. Department of Education.
2. Any person is qualified to receive a certificate of registration to practice barbering:
   1. Who is qualified under the provisions of this chapter;
   2. Who is of good moral character and temperate habits;
   3. Who has completed not less than fifteen hundred (1500) hours at a barbering school approved by the State Board of Barber Examiners; and
   4. Who has passed a satisfactory examination conducted by the board of examiners to determine his fitness to practice barbering.
3. A temporary permit to practice barbering until the next examination is given may be issued to a student who has completed not less than fifteen hundred (1500) hours at a barbering school approved by the Board of Barber Examiners. In no event shall a person be allowed to practice barbering on a temporary permit beyond the date the next examination is given, except because of personal illness.

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