A. Each cosmetology and barber school shall be licensed annually by the State Board of Cosmetology and Barbering. Application for the first year's license for a cosmetology and barber school shall be accompanied by a fee of Four Hundred Dollars ($400.00), which shall be retained by the Board if the application is approved and a license is issued. The annual renewal license fee for cosmetology or barber schools shall be One Hundred Twenty-five Dollars ($125.00).

B. 1. No license or renewal thereof for a cosmetology or barber school shall be issued unless the owner thereof furnishes to the Board a good and sufficient surety bond in the principal sum of Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00) for the first instructor and an additional One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) for each additional instructor, executed by a surety company authorized to do business in this state, and conditioned on the faithful performance of the terms and conditions of all contracts entered into between the owner of the cosmetology or barber school and all persons enrolling therein.

2. The surety bond shall be in a form approved by the Attorney General and filed in the Office of the Secretary of State. Suit may be brought on the bond by any person injured by reason of the breach of the conditions thereof.

C. It shall be the duty of the owner or manager of a cosmetology or barber school to enter into a written contract with all students before permitting students to attend any classes. Contracts shall be made out in triplicate, the original copy to be retained by the school, the duplicate to be given to the student, and the triplicate to be filed with the executive director of the Board.

D. A school licensed or applying for licensure shall maintain recognition as an institution of postsecondary study by meeting the following conditions:

1. The school shall admit as a regular student only an individual who has earned a recognized high school diploma, or who is beyond the age of compulsory high school attendance;

2. The school shall be licensed by name, or in the case of an applicant, shall apply for licensure by name, to offer one or more training programs beyond the secondary level.

E. No license for a cosmetology or barber school shall be issued unless the owner thereof presents evidence satisfactory to the Board that the school has satisfactory facilities and equipment and has instructors qualified to give a course of study as provided in the Oklahoma Cosmetology and Barbering Act.

F. There shall be included in the curriculum for cosmetology and barber schools, courses of study in the theory of cosmetology and barbering related theory, studies in manipulative practices, sterilization and sanitation, shop management, and such other related subjects as may be approved by the Board.

G. 1. The Board shall adopt a curriculum of required courses of instruction in theory and training of either one thousand five hundred (1,500) clock hours or an equivalent number of credit hours as recognized by the United States Department of Education or a regional or national accreditation entity recognized by the United States Department of Education in a basic course to be taught in all cosmetology or barbering schools in the state. The basic cosmetology or barbering course shall be designed to qualify students completing the course to take the examination for a license.

2. Cosmetology and barber students in vocational, trade, and industrial cosmetology and barbering classes in public schools, parochial, private schools or home schools shall qualify by completing one thousand (1,000) hours in a basic course of cosmetology or barbering and five hundred (500) hours of approved related subjects to be selected from, but not limited to, the following high school courses in a public school, parochial, private or home school: psychology, biology, general science, American history, art, typing I, typing II, business arithmetic, salesmanship, bookkeeping I, bookkeeping II, related mathematics, English II, English III and English IV.

H. 1. No person shall be eligible to give instruction in cosmetology or barbering unless the person is the holder of a current unrevoked instructor's license issued by the Board.

2. Each cosmetology or barber school shall employ at least one instructor for the first fifteen students registered therein, and at least one additional instructor shall be employed for each additional group of fifteen students, or major fraction thereof.

3. Students utilizing hybrid learning programs are included in the total student number as referenced in the ratio in paragraph 2 of subsection G of this section.

I. A cosmetology or barbering school may be operated in and as part of an accredited high school.

J. No cosmetology or barber school owner or an establishment owner shall charge students or apprentices for cosmetic materials, supplies, apparatus, or machines used by them in practice work. A reasonable charge may be made by a cosmetology or barber school for clinical work performed by students upon persons who are not students therein. No instructor shall be permitted to do professional or clinical work in a cosmetology or barber school at any time.

K. No cosmetology or barber establishment shall ever be operated in or as a part of a cosmetology school.

L. 1. Students shall:

a.have an eighth-grade education or the equivalent thereof, and

b.be at least sixteen (16) years of age unless they are public or private school students who will be sixteen (16) years of age by November 1 of the year in which cosmetology or barbering instruction begins.

2. Credit shall not be given to any person by the Board or by a cosmetology or barber school for hours spent in attending a cosmetology or barber school unless the person has registered with the Board as a student prior to the attendance, except that a student who has attended a cosmetology or barber school out of state may receive credit for such attendance for transfer upon proper certification as provided by rule of the Board.

3. No student shall be credited with more than eight (8) hours' attendance in a cosmetology or barber school in any one (1) day.

4. No person shall be eligible to take the Board-issued examination for a license unless such person is at least seventeen (17) years of age or a high school graduate.

M. 1. No student shall be eligible to take the examination for a Board-issued license without furnishing to the Board the affidavit of the owner of the cosmetology or barber school that the student has satisfactorily completed the requirements specified in paragraph 1 of subsection F of this section, except public and private school students who will complete the requirements specified in paragraph 2 of subsection F of this section by the close of the current school year may take the examination next preceding the end of the school year.

2. Students who are eligible to take the examination shall be given an oral examination if requested by their instructor and proof of qualifying disability is proven.

N. No person shall be eligible to register for the examination for an instructor's license unless such person is a high school graduate, or has obtained a General Equivalency Diploma (GED) as to which the applicant shall qualify by tests to be prescribed by the Board and conducted by qualified examiners selected by the Board, and has:

1. Satisfactorily completed all hours required for the appropriate specialty course and an additional one thousand (1,000) instructor training hours or equivalent number of credit hours as recognized by the United States Department of Education or as recognized by a national accreditation entity prescribed by the Board in a cosmetology school in this state; or

2. Completed all hours required for the appropriate specialty course, three hundred (300) instructor training hours, prescribed by the Board in a cosmetology school in this state and has been engaged in the practice of cosmetology for at least the preceding two (2) years.

O. The Board shall have the power to conduct examinations around the state at public locations including, but not limited to, technology center schools.

P. Each cosmetology or barber school shall prominently display in a conspicuous place above or to the side of the entrance thereto a sign identifying it as an institute of learning. Wording on sign shall be in plain letters at least three (3) inches high and at least one (1) inch wide.

Added by Laws 1949, p. 393, § 7, emerg. eff. June 6, 1949. Amended by Laws 1951, p. 164, § 4, emerg. eff. May 26, 1951; Laws 1961, p. 445, § 3, emerg. eff. June 15, 1961; Laws 1968, c. 313, §§ 5, 6, emerg. eff. May 7, 1968; Laws 1968, c. 384, § 1, emerg. eff. May 10, 1968; Laws 1971, c. 160, § 1, emerg. eff. May 24, 1971; Laws 1978, c. 259, § 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1979; Laws 1979, c. 216, § 2, eff. July 1, 1979; Laws 1985, c. 77, § 3, eff. July 1, 1985; Laws 1992, c. 184, § 1, eff. July 1, 1992; Laws 1994, c. 135, § 4, eff. Sept. 1, 1994; Laws 2000, c. 355, § 8, eff. July 1, 2000; Laws 2001, c. 33, § 45, eff. July 1, 2001; Laws 2003, c. 56, § 4; Laws 2013, c. 229, § 91, eff. Nov. 1, 2013; Laws 2014, c. 260, § 5, eff. Nov. 1, 2014.

NOTE: Laws 1978, c. 215, § 3 repealed by Laws 1979, c. 216, § 3, eff. July 1, 1979. Laws 2002, c. 225, § 1 repealed by Laws 2003, c. 56, § 9.