62-3-101 - Board of examiners Terms and qualifications of members Inspection of barber schools and barber shops.
62-3-101. Board of examiners Terms and qualifications of members Inspection of barber schools and barber shops.
(a) (1) A board to be known as the board of barber examiners is established, to consist of five (5) members appointed by the governor, no more than two (2) of whom shall be from each grand division of the state. Four (4) members shall be practicing barbers who have practiced the occupation in this state for at least five (5) years immediately prior to appointment to the board. One (1) member shall be a person who is not a barber. The public member shall participate in all activities of the board except examination composition, administration of practical portions of examinations and inspection of barber schools. In making appointments to the board of barber examiners, the governor shall strive to ensure that at least one (1) person serving on the board is sixty (60) years of age or older and that at least one (1) person serving on the board is a member of a racial minority.
(2) Members shall serve for three (3) years. The governor may remove a member for cause. Members appointed to fill vacancies caused by death, resignation or removal shall serve during the unexpired term of their predecessor. No board member shall be an instructor, owner, employee, or manager of a barber school or college.
(b) Inspections of barber shops shall be performed by inspectors provided and supervised by the director of the board of barber examiners. Annual inspections of barber schools and colleges may be performed by the inspectors or members of the board; however, inspections of new barber schools and colleges, and inspections upon change of location or ownership of a barber school or college, may be performed by board members only.
[Acts 1929, ch. 118, § 18; mod. Code 1932, § 7134; Acts 1963, ch. 335, § 1; 1967, ch. 118, § 1; 1979, ch. 379, § 1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 62-301; Acts 1986, ch. 921, § 1; 1988, ch. 1013, § 27; 2001, ch. 99, § 1.]