Pennsylvania Code › Title 49 - PROFESSIONAL AND VOCATIONAL STANDARDS › Part I - DEPARTMENT OF STATE › Subpart A - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL AFFAIRS › Chapter 7 - STATE BOARD OF COSMETOLOGY › GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 7.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
						have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
						otherwise:
Act
-The act of May 3, 1933 (P. L. 242,
						No. 86) (63 P. S. §§
												507-527), known as the Cosmetology
						Law.
Board
-The State Board of
						Cosmetology.
Booth space
-The area of a salon in which
						a licensed cosmetologist or a holder of a limited license provides to a client
						a service for which a license is required under the act.
Braiding
-Intertwining the hair in a
						systematic motion to create patterns in a three-dimensional form, inverting the
						hair against the scalp along part of a straight or curved row of intertwined
						hair, or twisting the hair in a systematic motion, including extending the hair
						with natural or synthetic hair fibers.
Bureau
-The Bureau of Professional and
						Occupational Affairs in the Department of State.
Cosmetologist
-A licensed individual who
						is engaged in the practice of cosmetology.
Cosmetology
-
(i) Any or all work done for compensation by
					 any person, which work is generally and usually performed by cosmetologists,
					 which work is for the embellishment, cleanliness and beautification of the
					 human hair, such as arranging, braiding, dressing, curling, waving, permanent
					 waving, cleansing, cutting, singeing, bleaching, coloring, pressing, or similar
					 work thereon and thereabout, and the removal of superfluous hair, and the
					 massaging, cleansing, stimulating, manipulating, exercising, or similar work
					 upon the scalp, face, arms or hands, or the upper part of the body, by the use
					 of mechanical or electrical apparatus or appliances or cosmetics, preparations,
					 tonics, antiseptics, creams or lotions, or by any other means, and of
					 manicuring the nails, which enumerated practices shall be inclusive of the term
					 cosmetology but not in limitation thereof.
(ii) The term also includes the acts
					 comprising the practice of nail technology, natural hair braiding and
					 esthetics.
Department
-The Commissioner of
						Professional and Occupational Affairs in the Department of State.
Esthetics
-
(i) The practice of massaging the face,
					 applying cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, tonics, lotions or creams to the
					 face, removing superfluous hair by tweezers, depilatories or waxes, eyelash
					 perming and the dyeing of eyelashes and eyebrows.
(ii) The term includes the use of industry
					 standard mechanical and electrical apparatus and appliances in the practice of
					 esthetics.
Esthetician
-An individual licensed by
						the Board to practice esthetics.
Lavatory
-A working toilet and a working
						sink with hot and cold running water that are located in a separate room that
						affords privacy to the user.
Limited license
-A license issued by the
						Board to an individual which permits that individual to engage in the practice
						of esthetics, natural hair braiding or nail technology.
Limited practice salon
-A salon licensed
						by the Board for the provision of esthetician services, nail technology
						services or natural hair braiding services only.
Limited practice teacher
-A teacher
						licensed by the Board for the purpose of providing instruction in the area of
						esthetics, nail technology or natural hair braiding only.
Nail technician
-An individual licensed
						by the Board to engage in the practice of nail technology.
Nail technology
-The practice of
						manicuring the nails of an individual, applying artificial or sculptured nails
						to an individual, massaging the hands of an individual or massaging the lower
						arms of an individual up to the individual's elbow, massaging the feet of an
						individual or the lower legs of an individual up to the individual's knee, or a
						combination of these acts.
Natural hair braider
-An individual
						licensed by the Board to engage in the practice of natural hair
						braiding.
Natural hair braiding
-
(i) The practice of utilizing techniques that
					 result in tension on hair roots of individuals, such as twisting, wrapping,
					 weaving, extending, locking or braiding of the hair. The term includes the
					 application of heat by the use of a straightening comb, ceramic iron or similar
					 appliance to prepare the hair for manipulation.
(ii) The term does not include cutting the
					 hair or the application of dyes, reactive chemicals or other preparations to
					 alter the color or to straighten, curl or alter the structure of
					 hair.
School of cosmetology
-Any individual,
						partnership, association, business corporation, nonprofit corporation,
						municipal corporation, school district or any group of individuals however
						organized whose purpose is to provide courses of instruction in cosmetology or
						the teaching of cosmetology.
School district
-A school district, joint
						vocational school or department, area vocational-technical school or technical
						institute providing vocational education under Article XVIII of the Public
						School Code of 1949 (24 P. S. §§
												18-1801-18-1855).
Tanning units
-Equipment that utilizes
						ultraviolet light for the purpose of cosmetic tanning.
The provisions of this §
													7.1 amended under sections 5 and
						  11 of the act of May 3, 1933 (P. L. 242, No. 86) (63 P. S. §§
														511 and
						  517).