La. Admin. Code tit. 46 § VII-1501

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

Section VII-1501 - Statutory Requirements

A. No students can commence barber school prior to their seventeenth birthday.

B. Must be of good moral character and temperate habit.

C. Shows proof of graduation from high school or its equivalent.

D. Graduation of a course or instruction of not less than 1,500 hours completed within nine months with no more than eight hours to any one working day subject to the board's authority to determine by regulation the days and hours of school within these limits.

E. The course of instruction shall include the following subjects: scientific fundamentals of barbering, hygiene and bacteriology; history of the hair, skin, muscles and nerves; structure of the head, face, and neck; elementary chemistry as it relates to sterilization and asepsis; diseases of the skin and hair glands; the massaging and manipulating of the muscles of the body above the seventh cervical vertebra; hair cutting and shaving; and the arranging, dressing, coloring, bleaching and tinting of the hair.

F. Passes satisfactorily an examination conducted by the Board of Barber Examiners to determine his/her fitness to practice barbering.

1. These examinations shall be conducted every three months and shall include both a practical demonstration and a written and oral test and shall embrace the subjects usually taught in colleges of barbering approved by the Board of Barber Examiners.

La. Admin. Code tit. 46, § VII-1501

Promulgated by the Department of Labor, Board of Barber Examiners, LR 13:397 (July 1987), repromulgated by the Department of Employment and Training, Board of Barber Examiners, LR 17:356 (April 1991).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 37:341-392.