32-512.02. Barbers; licensure; applications; qualifications

A. A person is entitled to receive a barber license if the person does all of the following:

1. Submits to the board an application for a barber license on a form supplied by the board.

2. Either:

(a) Submits satisfactory evidence that the person is at least sixteen years old and has completed and received appropriate credits for at least two years of high school education or its equivalent as prescribed in rules adopted by the board.

(b) Submits to the board satisfactory evidence that the person is at least eighteen years of age.

3. Submits to the board satisfactory evidence that the person meets any of the following:

(a) Graduated from a barbering school in another state or country that had substantially the same requirements for schools licensed by the board at the time of the person's graduation.

(b) Completed a barbering course consisting of at least one thousand two hundred hours of training in a school licensed by the board.

(c) Completed a United States department of labor-approved or a department of economic security-approved apprenticeship program in barbering that includes at least two hundred fifty hours of infection protection law review instruction. The person shall complete the instruction required by this subdivision through either:

(i) A school that is licensed by the board or a school or program in another state that has, in the board's opinion, licensure requirements that are substantially equivalent to the requirements of this state.

(ii) A department of economic security-approved apprenticeship program.

4. Pays the prescribed fees for a barber license.

5. Passes the examinations for a barber license.

B. Notwithstanding subsection A, paragraphs 2 and 3 of this section, an applicant for a barber license who holds a cosmetologist license or a hairstylist license issued pursuant to this chapter shall complete a two hundred-hour course consisting of barbering techniques in a school licensed by the board.