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AR Code § 17-26-210 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 26 - Cosmetology and Related Occupations|Subchapter 2 - Cosmetology Technical Advisory Committee|§ 17-26-210. Disposition of funds

 (a) All fees, fines, and penalties collected under this chapter and on behalf of the State Board of Health and all receipts of every kind and nature collected under this chapter shall be paid into the State Treasury and shall be credited to the Public Health Fund.  (b)  (1) The fees, fines, penalties, and receipts shall be for the general uses of the Department of Health.  (2) Salaries and other expenses necessarily incurred in carrying into effect the provisions of this chapter and other programs administered by the Department of Health shall be paid from the fees, fines, penalties, and receipts.    (c) Expenditures shall be substantiated by vouchers and itemized statements at the end of each fiscal year or at any other time when demand therefor is made by the Department of Finance and Administration.
AR Code § 17-26-302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 26 - Cosmetology and Related Occupations|Subchapter 3 - Licensing|§ 17-26-302. Application for examination and license

 (a) Each application for the written examination shall be accompanied by the required fee, and shall contain proof of the qualifications of the applicant for registration and licensing.  (b) The application shall be verified by the oath of the applicant.
AR Code § 17-26-303 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 26 - Cosmetology and Related Occupations|Subchapter 3 - Licensing|§ 17-26-303. Examinations generally

 (a) The examination of applicants for a license in any of the branches or practices of cosmetology shall include both a practical demonstration and written test and shall embrace the subjects concerning the particular branch or branches, practice, or practices for which a license is applied.  (b) The examination shall not be confined to any special system or method.  (c) The examination shall be consistent in both practical and technical requirements and of sufficient thoroughness to satisfy the Cosmetology Technical Advisory Committee as to the applicant's skill in and knowledge of the practice of the occupation or occupations for which a license is sought.
AR Code § 17-26-304 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 26 - Cosmetology and Related Occupations|Subchapter 3 - Licensing|§ 17-26-304. Prerequisites to examination for cosmetologist, manicurist, aesthetician, or instructor

 The Department of Health shall admit to examination for a license as a cosmetologist, manicurist, aesthetician, or instructor a person who has made application to the department in proper form, has paid the fee required, and who:   (1) Is not less than sixteen (16) years of age;  (2) Has completed two (2) years of high school in the public schools of this state or its equivalent; and  (3) Has completed one (1) of the following:  (A) For a cosmetologist, training of at least one thousand two hundred (1,200) hours;  (B) For a manicurist, training of at least four hundred eighty (480) hours;  (C) For an aesthetician, training of at least four hundred eighty (480) hours;  (D) For an instructor, training of at least four hundred eighty (480) hours; or  (E) The prescribed course of study in cosmetology under the laws of another state whose licensing requirements are equal to or stricter than those in Arkansas.
AR Code § 17-26-306 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 26 - Cosmetology and Related Occupations|Subchapter 3 - Licensing|§ 17-26-306. Electrologists — Prerequisites to examination

 The Department of Health shall admit to examination for a license as an electrologist a person who has made application to the department in proper form, has paid the fee required, and who:   (1) Is not less than eighteen (18) years of age;  (2) Has completed the twelfth grade at an accredited senior high school in the public schools of this state or its equivalent; and  (3) Has completed one (1) of the following:  (A) A course of three hundred fifty (350) hours of practical training as a student in conjunction with a course of one thousand five hundred (1,500) hours in cosmetology or for a licensed cosmetologist;  (B) A course of six hundred (600) hours of practical training as a student, when not in conjunction with a regular course in cosmetology or for a licensed cosmetologist, extending over a period of not less than four (4) months under the immediate supervision of a licensed electrologist instructor in a school of cosmetology;  (C) The prescribed course of study in electrology under the laws of another state whose licensing requirements are equal to or stricter than those in Arkansas; or  (D) Training and practice in electrology for a period as shall be specified by rules of the State Board of Health.
AR Code § 17-26-307 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 26 - Cosmetology and Related Occupations|Subchapter 3 - Licensing|§ 17-26-307. Electrology instructors — Prerequisites to examination

 The Department of Health shall admit to examination for license as an electrology instructor any person who has made application to the department in proper form, has paid the fee required, and who:   (1) Is not less than twenty-one (21) years of age;  (2) Holds a valid Arkansas license as an electrologist; and  (3) Has had three (3) years of practical experience as an electrologist in the State of Arkansas within the past five (5) years.
AR Code § 17-26-309 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 26 - Cosmetology and Related Occupations|Subchapter 3 - Licensing|§ 17-26-309. Examination for cosmetologists and all branches of cosmetology

 Examinations for license as cosmetologists and all other branches of cosmetology shall include a written core and law test and a practical test that embrace all phases of cosmetology as deemed necessary by the Cosmetology Technical Advisory Committee to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the public.
AR Code § 17-26-310 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 26 - Cosmetology and Related Occupations|Subchapter 3 - Licensing|§ 17-26-310. Failure to appear for examination

 The Cosmetology Technical Advisory Committee shall promulgate rules concerning an applicant for an examination who fails to appear for the examination.
AR Code § 17-26-311 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 26 - Cosmetology and Related Occupations|Subchapter 3 - Licensing|§ 17-26-311. Eligibility for reexamination

 Anyone failing to pass an examination shall be permitted upon application to take another examination.
AR Code § 17-26-312 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 26 - Cosmetology and Related Occupations|Subchapter 3 - Licensing|§ 17-26-312. Issuance of license

 (a) Persons who pass any examination under this chapter shall receive a license from the Cosmetology Technical Advisory Committee.  (b) This license, except for renewal fees, entitles the holder to engage in the practice of the specified branch of cosmetology upon the public in a licensed cosmetological establishment, except as provided in § 17-26-102(3)(B).
AR Code § 17-26-314 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 26 - Cosmetology and Related Occupations|Subchapter 3 - Licensing|§ 17-26-314. Specificity of permit or license

 Every permit or license issued by the Cosmetology Technical Advisory Committee shall specify the occupation or occupations that the permit and license entitle the holder to practice.
AR Code § 17-26-315 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 26 - Cosmetology and Related Occupations|Subchapter 3 - Licensing|§ 17-26-315. Reciprocity

 Upon application to the Department of Health in the form provided for the particular class of license applied for, accompanied by the required fee, a person licensed as a cosmetologist, electrologist, manicurist, aesthetician, or instructor under the laws of another state shall be granted a license to practice the occupation or occupations in this state not of greater scope than the occupation or occupations for which the applicant was previously licensed in the other state, upon the following conditions:   (1) That the applicant for a license as a cosmetologist, manicurist, or aesthetician is not less than eighteen (18) years of age, and the applicant for a license as an instructor or electrologist is not less than twenty-one (21) years of age;  (2) That the applicant holds a current valid license upon application for reciprocity, evidenced by a certified copy of the license and an affidavit from the other state or by such other evidence as the department may require;  (3) That the applicant has passed an examination comparable to the examination given in this state; and  (4) That the applicant passes an Arkansas law examination under this chapter.
AR Code § 17-26-316 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 26 - Cosmetology and Related Occupations|Subchapter 3 - Licensing|§ 17-26-316. Display of license

 (a) Every licensee shall:  (1) Display his or her license in a conspicuous place in his or her principal office, place of business, place of employment, or mobile salon; or  (2) Wear the license on his or her person while practicing cosmetology.    (b) A license may contain a photograph of the licensee.
AR Code § 17-26-317 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 26 - Cosmetology and Related Occupations|Subchapter 3 - Licensing|§ 17-26-317. Notice of address change

 (a)  (1) Every registered cosmetologist manager-operator, cosmetologist, electrologist, manicurist, or aesthetician, unless operating a mobile salon as defined under § 17-26-102, within thirty (30) days after changing the address of his or her place of business as designated on the books of the Department of Health, shall notify the department of his or her new place of business.  (2) Upon receipt of the notification, the department shall make the necessary changes on its books.    (b) A person licensed by the department to operate a mobile salon shall notify the department of the address where the mobile salon usually remains.
AR Code § 17-26-318 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 26 - Cosmetology and Related Occupations|Subchapter 3 - Licensing|§ 17-26-318. Duplicate license

 A duplicate license shall be issued upon the filing of a statement explaining the loss of the license, verified by the oath of the applicant, and accompanied by the fee prescribed in § 17-26-209. Each duplicate license shall have the word “DUPLICATE” stamped across its face and bear the same date and show the number of the original license.
AR Code § 17-26-319 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 26 - Cosmetology and Related Occupations|Subchapter 3 - Licensing|§ 17-26-319. Expiration, renewal, and reinstatement

 (a) Licenses of cosmetologists, instructors, electrologists, aestheticians, and manicurists shall expire on the licensee's birthday on a biennial basis.  (b) Licenses of schools and establishments shall expire in one (1) of the following ways at the choice of the school or establishment owner:  (1) Annually on December 31;  (2) Biennially on December 31; or  (3) Biennially on the owner's birthday in conjunction with the individual license.    (c) Application for license renewals shall be filed and the fee paid not later than thirty (30) days following the expiration date established in subsection (a) of this section.  (d) A licensee whose license has lapsed for failure to renew and who is or was under the direct supervision of a physician for an extended or long-term condition may request from the Department of Health a waiver of the reinstatement fee.  (e) After five (5) years from the date of its expiration, a license may be reinstated upon the filing of an application as the department may prescribe, the payment of the examination fee, and the passing of the examination required by the department.  (f) The department is authorized and directed to renew, upon application and the payment of the necessary fees, the license of a cosmetologist, manicurist, aesthetician, instructor, or electrologist who is also a veteran of war who possessed the license but permitted it to lapse. The renewal license shall be issued without the applicant's being required to submit to any examination or to meet any additional schooling requirements.  (g)  (1) A licensee who is sixty-five (65) years of age or older and has been actively engaged in the practice or teaching of cosmetology for thirty (30) or more years may apply for a lifetime license.  (2) The fee for a lifetime license shall be established by rule of the department.  (3) The receipt of a lifetime license shall not exempt a licensee from:  (A) Complying with any applicable law or rule; and  (B) Receiving a penalty for failing to comply with an applicable law or rule.
AR Code § 17-26-321 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 26 - Cosmetology and Related Occupations|Subchapter 3 - Licensing|§ 17-26-321. Reissuance and reinstatement

 For good cause shown and under such reasonable rules as may be imposed, the Department of Health may reissue or reinstate the license of any person whose license has been previously revoked.
AR Code § 17-26-401 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 26 - Cosmetology and Related Occupations|Subchapter 4 - Cosmetological Schools and Establishments|§ 17-26-401. License requirements

 (a) No person, firm, or corporation shall conduct or operate a cosmetological establishment, school of cosmetology, beauty parlor, or any other place of business in which any one (1) or any combination of the occupations of a cosmetologist are taught or practiced, except the branch of manicuring as practiced in a barbershop, until licensed under the provisions of this chapter and complying with the provisions of this chapter relating to sanitation.  (b) It shall be unlawful for any person to employ or to allow to be employed any person not licensed by the Cosmetology Technical Advisory Committee in or about a cosmetological establishment as a cosmetologist manager-operator, or as a manicurist, or as an electrologist, or as an aesthetician.
AR Code § 17-26-402 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 26 - Cosmetology and Related Occupations|Subchapter 4 - Cosmetological Schools and Establishments|§ 17-26-402. Cosmetological establishments — License

 (a) A person, firm, or corporation desiring to operate a cosmetological establishment shall make an application to the Department of Health for a license.  (b) The application shall be accompanied by the required licensing fee.
AR Code § 17-26-403 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 26 - Cosmetology and Related Occupations|Subchapter 4 - Cosmetological Schools and Establishments|§ 17-26-403. School of cosmetology — Application to operate — License

 (a) Schools of cosmetology shall be conducted as provided in this subchapter.  (b)  (1) A person, firm, or corporation desiring to conduct a school of cosmetology shall apply to the Department of Health for approval.  (2) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall not be required to apply to the department for approval.  (3)  (A) When an application is made after January 1, the portion of the registration fee that the unexpired number of months in the year bears to the entire year, including the month the application is made, shall be paid to the department.  (B) In such a case the department shall issue a license for the fractional part of the year.      (c) The license authorizes the school of cosmetology holding it to transact operations in this state during the year or fraction thereof for which it is issued subject to the rules of the department.  (d) Nothing in this section shall be construed as authorization or permission to conduct a school of cosmetology without a valid, existing, and unexpired license.  (e) A license issued by the department shall designate on the written license whether the school of cosmetology is licensed as:  (1) A school of cosmetology; or  (2) A postsecondary school of cosmetology.
AR Code § 17-26-404 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 26 - Cosmetology and Related Occupations|Subchapter 4 - Cosmetological Schools and Establishments|§ 17-26-404. Licensing requirements — Expiration — Renewal

 (a) Licensing for cosmetological establishments and schools of cosmetology expires pursuant to § 17-26-319(b).  (b) An application for renewal of a license shall be filed with the Department of Health, accompanied by the required renewal fee.  (c) Thereupon, the department shall renew the license for the appropriate time period.  (d) A license that has expired for failure of the registrant to renew within the time fixed by this section may for a period of one (1) year thereafter be renewed upon the filing of an application in such form as the department may require and upon payment of the required renewal fee and the delinquency fee.  (e) After one (1) year from the date of its expiration, a certificate may not be renewed, and the establishment or school may again become entitled to a license only upon compliance with all of the provisions of this chapter relating to the original issuance of a license.
AR Code § 17-26-405 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 26 - Cosmetology and Related Occupations|Subchapter 4 - Cosmetological Schools and Establishments|§ 17-26-405. Facilities — Prohibition on use

 (a) No person having charge of a cosmetological establishment or school of cosmetology, whether as an owner or an employee, shall permit any room or part thereof in which any of the branches or practices of cosmetology are conducted, practiced, or taught to be used for sleeping, for residential purposes, or for any other purpose that would tend to make the room unsanitary.  (b) A cosmetological establishment shall have a direct entrance separate and distinct from any entrance in connection with private quarters.
AR Code § 17-26-406 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 26 - Cosmetology and Related Occupations|Subchapter 4 - Cosmetological Schools and Establishments|§ 17-26-406. Refusal or cancellation of school license — Causes

 (a) A school shall not be licensed until the Department of Health has had ample opportunity to verify sworn statements as to the actual ownership. In this respect, if false statements are submitted to the department in connection with a license application, this in itself shall constitute sufficient grounds for the refusal to grant any application under this subchapter. If an application is granted and thereafter the department discovers that false statements were made in connection therewith, this shall constitute sufficient grounds for the cancellation of the school license even though the false statements are detected after a license has been issued.  (b)  (1) The department may deny a school license to any applicant or licensee upon reasonable evidence that the school or its officials would jeopardize the health and safety of the public.  (2) A school license shall not be issued until the real owner files with the department a statement definitely designating who is authorized to accept service of notice from the department and to transact all business negotiations on behalf of the school, including answers to citations for hearing and compliance with rulings issued by the Cosmetology Technical Advisory Committee.
AR Code § 17-26-407 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 26 - Cosmetology and Related Occupations|Subchapter 4 - Cosmetological Schools and Establishments|§ 17-26-407. Inspection of school facilities

 (a) Before any school license under this subchapter shall be finally granted, a second inspection shall be made after the equipment has been installed and before the school is permitted to begin operation.  (b) An applicant shall not be granted a license to operate a school unless the Department of Health finds that sufficient equipment has been installed for the requirements of enrolling a minimum of not fewer than twenty-five (25) bona fide students and that not fewer than twenty-five (25) bona fide full-time student registration requests have been received in the case of any new school.  (c) New schools of cosmetology shall be required to contain not less than two thousand five hundred square feet (2,500 sq. ft.) of floor space in the working area.
AR Code § 17-26-408 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 26 - Cosmetology and Related Occupations|Subchapter 4 - Cosmetological Schools and Establishments|§ 17-26-408. Duties of school

 Each school shall:   (1) Possess sufficient apparatus and equipment necessary for the ready and full teaching of all the subjects or practices of cosmetology;  (2) Maintain licensed instructors competent to impart instruction in all branches or practices of cosmetology;  (3) Keep a daily record of the attendance of each student and the time devoted by each student to the various practices or branches of cosmetology and electrology;  (4) Establish grades and hold examinations before issuing diplomas; and  (5) Fix its tuition at an amount that will enable it to furnish without further charge to the student all cosmetics, materials, and supplies used on the public and in classes. This does not include books and instruments as shall be determined from time to time by the Department of Health.
AR Code § 17-26-409 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 26 - Cosmetology and Related Occupations|Subchapter 4 - Cosmetological Schools and Establishments|§ 17-26-409. School supervisor

 Every school shall at all times be in charge of and under the supervision of a licensed cosmetologist manager-operator who has had at least a total of three (3) years of practical experience in the practice or teaching of all of the branches of cosmetology, except the branch of electrology, in a licensed cosmetological establishment or a licensed school of cosmetology and who holds an instructor's license.