Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 46 - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL STANDARDS › Part XXXV - Electrologists › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section XXXV-103 - General Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. There is
				incorporated herein by reference all of the definitions set forth and contained
				in R.S.
				37:3051 and
				R.S.
				49:951. The following words and terms, when
				used in these rules and regulations, shall have the following meaning unless
				the text hereof or the definitions contained in the above-cited statutes
				clearly indicate otherwise.
Apprentice
-an individual engaged in learning
				  the theory and practice of electrology in an electrologist apprenticeship
				  program.
Board
-State Board of Electrolysis
				  Examiners.
Electrologist
-any person who for
				  compensation practices electrolysis for the permanent removal of hair, except a
				  physician licensed to practice medicine who performs electrolysis in his
				  practice or a person who engages, on behalf of a manufacturer or distributor,
				  solely in demonstrating the use of any machine or other article for the purpose
				  of sale, without charge to the person who is the subject of the
				  demonstration.
Electrologist Apprenticeship Program
-an
				  establishment which teaches or offers to teach the theory and practice of
				  electrology and which teaches or offers to teach instructors the theory and
				  practice of teaching electrology, without financial remuneration from the
				  apprentice or the student instructor.
Electrologist Technician
-an individual who
				  for compensation practices electrolysis for the permanent removal of hair under
				  the direct supervision of a licensed electrologist and who has completed a
				  200-hour course of instruction at an approved electrology school or
				  electrologist apprenticeship program.
Electrology
-the art and practice of removing
				  hair from the normal skin of the body by the application of an electric current
				  to the hair papilla by means of a needle or needles so as to cause growth
				  inactivity of the hair papilla and thus permanently remove hair.
Electrolysis
-the process by which hair is
				  removed from the normal skin by the application of an electric current to the
				  hair root by means of a needle or needles being inserted into the hair
				  follicle, whether the process employs direct electric current or short wave
				  alternating electric current.
School, School of Electrology, or Electrology
				  School
-an establishment which teaches or offers to teach students the
				  theory and practice of electrology and which teaches or offers to teach student
				  instructors the theory and practice of teaching electrology, for financial
				  remuneration from the student, student instructor, or both.
Student
-an individual engaged in learning
				  the theory and practice of electrology at a school of electrology.
Student Instructor
-an individual learning
				  the theory and practice of teaching electrology in an electrology school or an
				  electrologist apprenticeship program.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
				  Promulgated in accordance with
				  R.S.
				  37:3051.