§ 17-26-410 - Instructor qualifications.
17-26-410. Instructor qualifications.
(a) Each person employed in a school to instruct students in the school shall be a licensed cosmetologist, aesthetician, manicurist, or electrologist who:
(1) Is twenty-one (21) years of age or older and has had six hundred (600) hours of teacher training in a school of cosmetology over a period of not less than four (4) months; and
(2) Has passed an instructor's examination given by the Department of Health and has received an instructor's license.
(b) A licensed instructor shall not teach outside the profession in which the license to practice allows.
(c) A cosmetology school shall offer an education in cosmetology regardless of whether the curriculum includes a specialty course.