Rhode Island Code of Regulations › Title 216 - Department of health › Chapter 40 - Professional licensing and facility regulation › Subchapter 05 - Professional Licensing › Part 4 - Barbers, Hairdressers/Cosmeticians, Manicurists, Estheticians, and Instructors › Section 216-RICR-40-05-4.3 - Definitions

Current through June 14, 2024
A. The following words, when used in these
				  Rules and Regulations, shall be construed as follows:
1. "Act" means R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter
				  5-10, entitled "Barbers,
				  Hairdressers, Cosmeticians, Manicurists and Estheticians."
2. "Apprentice barber" means an employee
				  whose principal occupation is service with a barber who has held a current
				  license as a barber for at least three (3) years with a view to learning the
				  "practice of barbering," as defined in §
											4.3(A)(15)
				    of this Part.
3. "Barber" means any
				  person who shaves or trims the beard, waves, dresses, singes, shampoos or dyes
				  the hair or applies hair tonics, cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, powders,
				  oil clays, or lotions to scalp, face or neck of any person; or cuts the hair of
				  any person, gives facial and scalp massages or treatments with oils, creams,
				  lotions, or other preparations.
4.
				  "Board" means the state Board of Barbering and Hairdressing as provided for in
				  the Act.
5. "Department" means the
				  Rhode Island Department of Health.
6. "Esthetician" means a person who engages
				  in the practice of esthetics, and is licensed as an esthetician.
7. "Esthetician shop" means a shop licensed
				  under the Act and this Part to do esthetics on any person.
8. "Esthetics" means the practice of
				  cleaning, stimulating, manipulating and beautifying skin, including but not
				  limited to the treatment of such skin problems as dehydration, temporary
				  capillary dilation, excessive oiliness and clogged pores.
9. "Hair design shop" means a shop licensed
				  under the Act and this Part to do barbering or hairdressing/cosmetic therapy,
				  or both, to any person.
10.
				  "Hairdresser and cosmetician" means any person who arranges, dresses, curls,
				  cuts, waves, singes, bleaches or colors the hair or treats the scalp, or
				  manicures the nails of any person either with or without compensation or who,
				  by the use of the hands or appliances, or of cosmetic preparations,
				  antiseptics, tonics, lotions, creams, powders, oils or clays, engages, with or
				  without compensation, in massaging, cleansing, stimulating, manipulating,
				  exercising or beautifying or in doing similar work upon the neck, face or arms
				  or who removes superfluous hair from the body of any person.
11. "Instructor" means any person licensed as
				  an instructor under the provisions of the Act and this Part.
12. "Manager" means a person licensed as a
				  barber, hairdresser/cosmetician, manicurist or esthetician for at least one (1)
				  year who is registered with the Department by the owner of the shop to be
				  responsible for supervising the operation of the shop and its employees as it
				  relates to the Act and this Part.
13. "Manicuring shop" means a shop licensed
				  under the Act and this Part to do manicuring only on the nails of any
				  person.
14. "Manicurist" means any
				  person who engages in manicuring for compensation, and is licensed as a
				  manicurist.
15. "The practice of
				  barbering" means the engaging by any licensed barber in all or any combination
				  of the following practices: shaving or trimming the beard or cutting the hair;
				  giving facial and scalp massages or treatments with oils, creams, lotions, or
				  other preparations either by hand or mechanical appliances; singeing,
				  shampooing, arranging, dressing, curling, waving, chemical waving, hair
				  relaxing, or dyeing the hair or applying hair tonics; applying cosmetic
				  preparations, antiseptics, powders, oils, clays or lotions to scalp, face or
				  neck.
16. "The practice of
				  hairdressing and cosmetic therapy" means the engaging by any licensed
				  hairdresser/cosmetician in any one (1) or more of the following practices: the
				  application of the hands or of mechanical or electrical apparatus, with or
				  without cosmetic preparations, tonics, lotions, creams, antiseptics, or clays,
				  to massage, cleanse, stimulate, manipulate, exercise, or otherwise to improve
				  or to beautify the scalp, face, neck, shoulders, arms, bust or upper part of
				  the body or the manicuring of the nails and toenails of any person; or the
				  removing of superfluous hair from the body of any person; or the arranging,
				  dressing, curling, waving, weaving, cleansing, cutting, singeing, bleaching,
				  coloring or similarly treating the hair of any person. Provided, however, that
				  the practice of hairdressing and cosmetic therapy shall not include natural
				  hair braiding.
17. "The practice of
				  manicuring" means the cutting, trimming, polishing, tinting, coloring or
				  cleansing the nails of any person.
18. "School" means a school approved under
				  R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter
				  16-40 devoted to the instruction
				  in and study of the theory and practice of barbering, hairdressing/cosmetic
				  therapy, esthetics and/or manicuring.