Ala. Code § 45-37-40

It shall be unlawful for any person, partnership, association, or corporation to act as a barber, a barber teacher, an apprentice barber, a scalp specialist, house barber, or to operate a barber college, barber shop, or other like business, or to advertise or assume to act as such in any county within this state having a population of 400,000 or more according to the last or any subsequent federal decennial census without first having obtained a license issued by the barber commission of the county wherein such act is done or sought to be done. No partnership, association, or corporation shall be granted a license unless every member or officer of such partnership, association, or corporation, who actively engages in the barber business, barber college, or like business of such partnership, association, or corporation, shall hold a license as a barber, issued pursuant to this part. It shall also be unlawful for anyone to violate this part.