Sec. 20-252. Licenses. Examinations.
Sec. 20-252. Licenses. Examinations. No person shall engage in the occupation
of registered hairdresser and cosmetician without having obtained a license from the
department. Persons desiring such licenses shall apply in writing on forms furnished by
the department. No license shall be issued, except a renewal of a license, to a registered
hairdresser and cosmetician unless the applicant has shown to the satisfaction of the
department that the applicant has complied with the laws and the regulations administered or adopted by the department. No applicant shall be licensed as a registered hairdresser and cosmetician, except by renewal of a license, until the applicant has made
written application to the department, setting forth by affidavit that the applicant has
successfully completed the eighth grade and that the applicant has completed a course
of not less than fifteen hundred hours of study in a school approved in accordance with
the provisions of this chapter, in a school teaching hairdressing and cosmetology under
the supervision of the State Board of Education, or, if trained outside of Connecticut,
in a school teaching hairdressing and cosmetology whose requirements are equivalent
to those of a Connecticut school and until the applicant has passed a written examination
satisfactory to the department. Examinations required for licensure under this chapter
shall be prescribed by the department with the advice and assistance of the board. The
department shall establish a passing score for examinations with the advice and assistance of the board which shall be the same as the passing score established in section
20-236.
(1949 Rev., S. 4590, 4591; 1957, P.A. 215; February, 1965, P.A. 363, S. 2; 1969, P.A. 822, S. 2, 3; 1971, P.A. 468, S.
2; 1972, P.A. 127, S. 47; P.A. 77-614, S. 302, 323, 610; P.A. 80-484, S. 112, 176; P.A. 81-471, S. 56, 71; P.A. 84-173, S.
2; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 98-43, S. 4; P.A. 01-195, S. 165, 181; P.A. 04-221, S. 15; P.A.
05-272, S. 12.)
History: 1965 act added 21-year and tenth-grade requirements and 3-year assistant's license alternative and raised
training and experience alternative from 3 years; 1969 act amended Subsec. (a) to add education requirements and amended
Subsec. (c) to allow equivalency examination as alternative to tenth grade education; 1971 act deleted practical and oral
segment of examination in Subsecs. (a) and (c); 1972 act reduced minimum age requirement in Subsec. (c) from 21 to 18,
reflecting changed age of majority; P.A. 77-614 replaced secretary of the state board of education with commissioner of
education and department of health with department of health services, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-484 deleted
references to assistant hairdresser and cosmetician and instructor categories, including Subsecs. (b) and (d) which had
contained licensing requirements for those categories, deleted requirement that applicants be "of good moral character",
redesignated remaining Subsecs. (a), (c) and (e) as (1), (2) and (3), deleted minimum age requirements in Subsecs. (1)
and (2) and added provisions in Subsec. (2) re health services department's responsibility for administering exams and
establishing passing scores; P.A. 81-471 amended section to eliminate reference to operator's license and qualifications,
to delete the requirement that equivalency examinations be given concurrently with licensure examinations, to eliminate
requirement of training under the personal supervision of a registered hairdresser and cosmetician and to insert a specific
requirement of not less than 1,500 hours of study in an approved school and reduce the entry level educational requirement
from tenth grade to ninth grade; P.A. 84-173 required examinations for licensure to be prescribed by the department with
the advice and assistance of the board and required the board's advice and assistance rather than consent in establishing a
passing score; P.A. 93-381 replaced department of health services with department of public health and addiction services,
effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with
Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 98-43 changed education requirement from
ninth grade to eighth grade; P.A. 01-195 made technical changes, effective July 11, 2001; P.A. 04-221 deleted requirements
that department conduct equivalency and licensure examinations, and added provision re training at school outside state;
P.A. 05-272 removed provision re equivalency examination prepared by Commissioner of Education.
Cited. 113 C. 564.