P.R. Laws tit. 20, § 580n
Unless otherwise deduced from the context, the terms expressed below shall have the following meanings:
(a) To practice the profession of barber. — Refers to any person authorized by a license issued by the Barbers and Hair Stylists Examining Board to cut, trim, and retouch the hair of a person by any other means or method assisted by his hands and by the use of combs, scissors, machines and manual or electrical devices to cut the hair, to render other similar services such as dyeing, shampooing and giving scalp, neck and face massages, and to shave beards by the application of foamy soap.
(b) To be engaged in the profession of hair stylist. — Refers to any person qualified and authorized by license issued by the Barbers and Hair Stylists Examining Board to create hairdos according to different styles, periods, personality and predominant facial features of a particular person by any means or method assisted by his hand and through the use of his hands, combs, tonics, lotions and other accessories or manual or electrical devices.
(c) Examining Board. — The Barbers and Hair Stylists Examining Board.
History —June 27, 1968, No. 146, p. 431, added as § 16 on May 30, 1972, No. 47, p. 106, § 9; added again as § 16 on May 27, 1975, No. 28, p. 53, § 2.