§ 5-10-1 - Definitions.
SECTION 5-10-1
§ 5-10-1 Definitions. – The following words and phrases, when used in this chapter, are construed asfollows:
(1) "Apprentice barber" means an employee whose principaloccupation is service with a barber or hairdresser who has held a currentlicense as a barber or hairdresser for at least three (3) years with a view tolearning the art of barbering, as defined in subdivision (15) of this section.
(2) "Barber" means any person who shaves or trims the beard,waves, dresses, singes, shampoos, or dyes the hair or applies hair tonics,cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, powders, oil clays, or lotions to scalp,face, or neck of any person; or cuts the hair of any person, gives facial andscalp massages, or treatments with oils, creams, lotions, or other preparations.
(3) "Board" means the state board of barbering andhairdressing as provided for in this chapter.
(4) "Department" means the Rhode Island department of health.
(5) "Division" means the division of professional regulationwithin the department of health.
(6) "Esthetician" means a person who engages in the practiceof esthetics, and is licensed as an esthetician.
(7) "Esthetician shop" means a shop licensed under thischapter to do esthetics of any person.
(8) "Esthetics" means the practice of cleansing, stimulating,manipulating, and beautifying skin, including, but not limited to, thetreatment of such skin problems as dehydration, temporary capillary dilation,excessive oiliness, and clogged pores.
(9) "Hair design shop" means a shop licensed under thischapter to do barbering or hairdressing/cosmetology, or both, to any person.
(10) "Hairdresser and cosmetician" means any person whoarranges, dresses, curls, cuts, waves, singes, bleaches, or colors the hair ortreats the scalp, or manicures the nails of any person either with or withoutcompensation or who, by the use of the hands or appliances, or of cosmeticpreparations, antiseptics, tonics, lotions, creams, powders, oils or clays,engages, with or without compensation, in massaging, cleansing, stimulating,manipulating, exercising, or beautifying or in doing similar work upon theneck, face, or arms or who removes superfluous hair from the body of any person.
(11) "Instructor" means any person licensed as an instructorunder the provisions of this chapter.
(12) "Manicuring shop" means a shop licensed under thischapter to do manicuring only on the nails of any person.
(13) "Manicurist" means any person who engages in manicuringfor compensationand is duly licensed as a manicurist.
(14) "School" means a school approved under chapter 40 oftitle 16, as amended, devoted to the instruction in and study of the theory andpractice of barbering, hairdressing and cosmetic therapy, esthetics and/ormanicuring.
(15) "The practice of barbering" means the engaging by anylicensed barber in all or any combination of the following practices: shavingor trimming the beard or cutting the hair; giving facial and scalp massages ortreatments with oils, creams, lotions, or other preparations either by hand ormechanical appliances; singeing, shampooing, arranging, dressing, curling,waving, chemical waving, hair relaxing, or dyeing the hair or applying hairtonics; or applying cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, powders, oils, clays orlotions to scalp, face, or neck.
(16) "The practice of hairdressing and cosmetic therapy"means the engaging by any licensed hairdresser and cosmetician in any one ormore of the following practices: the application of the hands or of mechanicalor electrical apparatus, with or without cosmetic preparations, tonics,lotions, creams, antiseptics, or clays, to massage, cleanse, stimulate,manipulate, exercise, or otherwise to improve or to beautify the scalp, face,neck, shoulders, arms, bust, or upper part of the body or the manicuring of thenails of any person; or the removing of superfluous hair from the body of anyperson; or the arranging, dressing, curling, waving, weaving, cleansing,cutting, singeing, bleaching, coloring, or similarly treating the hair of anyperson.
(17) "The practice of manicuring" means the cutting,trimming, polishing, tinting, coloring, or cleansing the nails of any person.