Section 36-15-29 - License required for school of cosmetology, nail technology or esthetics--Requirements for license.
36-15-29. License required for school of cosmetology, nail technology or esthetics--Requirements for license. No person may conduct a cosmetology, nail technology, or esthetics school for any of the practices of cosmetology, as applicable, unless that person is licensed as a school by the commission. The commission shall issue the license if the applicant meets the following requirements:
(1) The applicant completes the application and provides any required documentation;
(2) The application is accompanied by the fee required in this chapter;
(3) The applicant has no violations with another cosmetology board;
(4) The education offered is a complete program of not less than twenty-one hundred hours for a cosmetology program or a complete program of not less than four hundred hours for a nail technician program or a complete program of not less than the hours established by rules pursuant to § 36-15-13 for an esthetician license or the respective equivalent credit hours; and
(5) The applicant meets all requirements established by rules adopted pursuant to this chapter.
Source: SDC 1939, § 27.1506; SL 1947, ch 125, § 1; SL 1957, ch 118, § 1; SL 1972, ch 206, § 27; SL 1997, ch 218, § 12; SL 2003, ch 202, § 40; SL 2005, ch 201, § 3; SL 2009, ch 182, § 2.