§ 43-7-2 - Purpose of chapter
O.C.G.A. 43-7-2 (2010)
43-7-2. Purpose of chapter
This chapter is enacted for the purpose of safeguarding the public health, safety, and welfare by providing for state administrative control, supervision, and regulation of the practice of barbering, teaching of barbering, barbers, barber teachers, barber apprentices, barbershops, and barber schools. Barbering is declared to affect the public interest, and this chapter shall be liberally construed so as to accomplish the foregoing purpose.