Section 45-52-30.04 - Licensing - Barber's college or school; instructor; apprentice barber; barber(a) A barber's college or school, before it shall be issued a license by the commission, must comply with the requirements and standards as follows: (1) Require as a prerequisite to admission, a diploma or other proof of graduation from a grammar school, or satisfactory completion of an examination devised or approved by the commission, showing knowledge equal to such education.(2) Require as a prerequisite to graduation, satisfactory completion of a course of instruction of not less than 1,000 hours, to be completed over a period of not less than nine months of continuous instruction of not more than eight hours in any one day.(3) Such course of instruction shall include the following, or like and equal, subjects: Scientific fundamentals of barbering; hygenic bacteriology; histology of the hair, skin, muscles, and nerves; structure of the head, face, and neck; elementary chemistry relating to sterilization and antiseptics; diseases of the skin and hair; massaging and manipulating the muscles of the scalp, face, and neck; and haircutting, shaving, and bleaching and dyeing of the hair.(b) In order to receive a license as an instructor in a barber college or school licensed under this article, an applicant must meet the following requirements: (1) He or she must be a high school graduate.(2) He or she must furnish suitable evidence that he or she has either: a. Been actively engaged as a licensed barber for seven years immediately preceding the filing of the application. b. Been actively engaged as a licensed barber for three years immediately preceding the filing of the application and be a graduate of a barber college or school licensed, conducted, or accredited by the State of Alabama or some agency or political subdivision thereof. (3) An instructor's license may be renewed for no more than three years unless the applicant furnishes satisfactory proof to the commission that he or she has received credit for a minimum of eight hours instruction in the field of education from an accredited college or university. (c) In order to receive a license as an apprentice barber, an applicant must meet the following requirements: (1) He or she must have graduated from a barber's school or college that is approved by the commission.(2) Be 17 years of age, or older.(3) Be of good moral character and temperate habits.(4) Pass an examination conducted by the commission to determine his or her fitness to practice as an apprentice barber.(5) Meet all the other requirements of this article as it applies to apprentice barbers.(d) In order to receive a license as a barber, an applicant must meet the following requirements:(1) He or she must be a licensed apprentice barber and have practiced as such under the immediate personal supervision of a licensed barber for a period of not less than 12 months.(2) Be 18 years of age, or older.(3) Be of good moral character and temperate habits.(4) Pass an examination conducted by the commission to determine his or her fitness to practice barbering, such examination to include factors to determine the applicant's general educational level as well as his or her knowledge and skill of barbering. The examination shall be conducted with a view of determining whether the applicant has general knowledge equal to an elementary school education or its equivalent, whether he or she has a thorough knowledge of the subjects required to be taught in barber's school or college, and in examining him or her as to his or her knowledge of barbering he or she shall be taken to a barber's chair in a barber shop where barbers licensed under this article are practicing barbering and given an examination that will determine his or her skill as a barber, by requiring him or her to perform any act or acts of barbering and to name any of the instruments and their parts which are used in a barber shop.(5) Meet all other requirements of this article as it applies to a barber.(e) A barber's license shall be issued without examination by the commission to any person who, for two years immediately preceding October 1, 1982, has been continuously engaged in the practice of barbering at one or more established places of business in Morgan County, provided he or she shall make application before the expiration of three years after October 1, 1982, which application shall be accompanied by the recommendations of at least two licensed barbers doing business in Morgan County, not related to the applicant by blood or marriage, certifying that the applicant is of good reputation and qualified to practice barbering.(f) A licensed apprentice barber shall not independently practice barbering, but may do any and all acts constituting the practice of barbering under the immediate personal supervision of a licensed barber.Ala. Code § 45-52-30.04 (1975)
Act 82-864, 3rd Sp. Sess., § 4.