Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 30 - Professions and Occupations › Part 2101 - Cosmetology, Board of › Chapter 1 - General › Rule 30-2101-1.2 - Definitions

Current through June 25, 2024
As used in this Chapter, unless the context otherwise
				  requires:
A. "Accelerated Hours" means
				to reduce the time-frame (not clock hours) required for course completion by
				compressing into shorter period.
B. "Agent" means a member of the Board or any
				of its authorized representatives.
C. "Applied effort" means the time devoted to
				the study of theory, attendance at theory classes, and the actual performance
				or all practical skills.
D.
				"Average daily attendance" means the average daily attendance over a
				three-month period of the students enrolled in a school.
E. "Board" means the Mississippi State Board
				of Cosmetology.
F. "Cosmetology
				Law" or "Law" means Chapter 7 of Title 73 of the Mississippi Code of 1972 as
				amended.
G. "Passport photograph"
				means a two inch by two inch (2"x2") photograph of the applicant/licensee taken
				recently prior to the date of application or renewal of license. The person
				must be recognizable in the photograph.
H. "Establishment" means cosmetological
				establishment; school or salon
I.
				"Extenuating Circumstances" means special circumstances that account for an
				irregular way of doing things.
J.
				"Full Time" means not less than twenty-five (25), nor more than forty (40)
				hours per week.
K. "Hours" means
				clock hours.
L. "Sink" means a
				basin fixed to a wall, countertop or floor, having a drainpipe and piped supply
				of hot and cold water.
M. "Lead
				Instructor" means the instructor who is in charge of the teaching program at a
				licensed school.
N. "License"
				means original or duplicate as issued by the Board.
O. "Make-up Hours" are clock hours acquired
				in excess of the 40 hours per week maximum, which may be applied to missed
				time, in the calendar month in which they were acquired.
P. "Part Time" means anything less than full
				time as defined in this rule.
Q.
				"Practitioner" means a licensed person who is practicing one of the professions
				regulated by the Mississippi State Board of Cosmetology, as defined in Section
				73-7-2
				of the Mississippi Code of 1972 as amended.
R. "Salon" means a licensed establishment
				operated for the purpose of engaging in the practice of cosmetology, or
				manicuring and pedicuring, or esthetics, or all.
S. "School" means a licensed establishment,
				public or private, operated for the purpose of teaching cosmetology, or
				manicuring, or pedicuring, or esthetics, or all.
T. "School premises" means buildings,
				grounds, and parking lots of the school.
U. "State" means the State of Mississippi.
V. "Student" means any person
				attending classes in a school licensed by the Board.
W. "Student Instructor" means any person
				licensed as a cosmetologist, manicurist or esthetician enrolled in an
				instructor training program in a school licensed by the Board under the
				supervision of an instructor.
X.
				"Subject" means instruction and training or study of a theoretical or skill
				operation.
Miss. Code Ann.
				  §§
										73-7-7,
				  73-7-2
				  (Rev. 2013)