644.360 - Display of license; limitation on persons to whom space may be leased; limitation on persons who may be employed.

644.360  Display of license; limitation on persons to whom space may be leased; limitation on persons who may be employed.

      1.  Every holder of a license issued by the Board to operate a cosmetological establishment shall display the license in plain view of members of the general public in the principal office or place of business of the holder.

      2.  Except as otherwise provided in this section, the operator of a cosmetological establishment may lease space to or employ only licensed nail technologists, electrologists, aestheticians, hair designers, demonstrators of cosmetics and cosmetologists at the establishment to provide cosmetological services. This subsection does not prohibit an operator of a cosmetological establishment from:

      (a) Leasing space to or employing a barber. Such a barber remains under the jurisdiction of the State Barbers’ Health and Sanitation Board and remains subject to the laws and regulations of this State applicable to his or her business or profession.

      (b) Leasing space to any other professional, including, without limitation, a provider of health care pursuant to subsection 3. Each such professional remains under the jurisdiction of the regulatory body which governs his or her business or profession and remains subject to the laws and regulations of this State applicable to such business or profession.

      3.  The operator of a cosmetological establishment may lease space at the cosmetological establishment to a provider of health care for the purpose of providing health care within the scope of his or her practice. The provider of health care shall not use the leased space to provide such health care at the same time a cosmetologist uses that space to engage in the practice of cosmetology. A provider of health care who leases space at a cosmetological establishment pursuant to this subsection remains under the jurisdiction of the regulatory body which governs his or her business or profession and remains subject to the laws and regulations of this State applicable to such business or profession.

      4.  As used in this section:

      (a) “Provider of health care” means a person who is licensed, certified or otherwise authorized by the law of this State to administer health care in the ordinary course of business or practice of a profession.

      (b) “Space” includes, without limitation, a separate room in the cosmetological establishment.

      [Part 18:218:1931; 1931 NCL § 1862.18]—(NRS A 1971, 1119; 1985, 1626, 1859; 1987, 1070; 1991, 2060; 1995, 463; 2001, 1195; 2003, 2533; 2005, 2644, 2856; 2009, 2506)