62-3-110 - Qualifications for technicians and master barbers.
62-3-110. Qualifications for technicians and master barbers.
(a) (1) Any person who desires a certificate of registration as a technician, authorizing the person to apply tints or dyes to the hair, shampoo hair, manicure nails and apply cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, powders, oils, clays or lotions to scalp, face, neck or other parts of the body, shall submit an application for examination to the board of barber examiners on the prescribed form.
(2) The application shall be accompanied by proof of satisfactory completion of a course in a registered barber school or college of no less than three hundred forty (340) hours of continuous instruction, including no more than eight (8) hours per day and forty (40) hours per week in the following subjects:
(A) Scientific fundamentals of shampooing, tinting, dyeing, manicuring, the application of cosmetic preparations, hygiene and bacteriology;
(B) Histology of the hair and hair structure; and
(C) Massaging and manipulation of the muscles of the arms, hands and scalp.
(3) The application shall also contain proof that:
(A) The applicant is at least seventeen (17) years of age;
(B) The applicant has a tenth-grade education or the equivalent; and
(C) All money owed by the applicant to a barbering school has been paid.
(b) Any person who desires a certificate of registration as a master barber shall submit an application for examination to the board of barber examiners on the prescribed form. The application shall be accompanied by proof that the applicant:
(1) Is at least seventeen (17) years of age;
(2) Has a tenth-grade education or the equivalent;
(3) Has satisfactorily completed a course of one thousand five hundred (1,500) hours in a registered barber school or college; and
(4) Has paid all money owed by the student to the barbering school.
[Acts 1929, ch. 118, § 5; Code 1932, § 7122; Acts 1961, ch. 67, § 1; 1967, ch. 249, § 1; impl. am. Acts 1971, ch. 90, § 1; impl. am. Acts 1971, ch. 131, § 1; Acts 1975, ch. 146, § 4; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 62-310; Acts 1982, ch. 870, § 3; 1986, ch. 921, §§ 8, 9; 1996, ch. 895, §§ 3-7.]