54-506 QUALIFICATIONS FOR LICENSURE.

TITLE 54

PROFESSIONS, VOCATIONS, AND BUSINESSES

CHAPTER 5

BARBERS

54-506. Qualifications for licensure. (1) A person is qualified to receive a license to practice as a barber-stylist who:

(a) Has two (2) years of high school or an equivalent education as determined by the board;

(b) Is at least sixteen and one-half (16 1/2) years of age;

(c) Is of good moral character;

(d) Has completed and graduated from a course of instruction of at least one thousand eight hundred (1,800) hours in a school of barbering approved by the board; and

(e) Successfully passes an examination approved by the board.

(2) A person is qualified to receive a license to practice as a barber who:

(a) Has two (2) years of high school or an equivalent education as determined by the board;

(b) Is at least sixteen and one-half (16 1/2) years of age;

(c) Is of good moral character;

(d) Has completed and graduated from a course of instruction of at least nine hundred (900) hours in a school of barbering approved by the board; and

(e) Successfully passes an examination approved by the board.

(3) A person is qualified to receive a license to practice as a barber instructor who:

(a) Holds a current barber license issued by the board;

(b) Has satisfactorily completed a minimum six (6) month course of barber instructing as a student in a properly licensed barber college and has a minimum of one (1) year's experience as an apprentice in a licensed barber college, or as a barber in a licensed establishment, within the last three (3) years;

(c) Is of good moral character; and

(d) Successfully passes an examination approved by the board.

(4) A person is qualified to be a student who:

(a) Has attained the age of sixteen and one-half (16 1/2) years;

(b) Has a tenth grade or an equivalent education as determined by the board; and

(c) Registers as a student in a licensed barber college.

(5) A person is qualified to receive a license to practice as a barber-stylist instructor who:

(a) Holds a current Idaho barber-stylist license or a registered cosmetologist license;

(b) Has satisfactorily completed a minimum six (6) month course of barber-stylist instructing as a student in a properly licensed barber college and has a minimum of one (1) year's experience as an apprentice in a licensed barber college, or as a barber-stylist or registered cosmetologist in a licensed establishment, within the last three (3) years;

(c) Is of good moral character; and

(d) Successfully passes an examination approved by the board.