(a) After October 1, 1982, it shall be unlawful for any person, partnership, association, or corporation to act as a barber, operate a barber college, barber shop, or other like business, or to instruct in a barber college, or to advertise or assume to act as such without a license issued by the Barbers’ Commission of Morgan County. No partnership, association, or corporation shall be granted a license, unless every member or officer of the 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 as hereinafter provided for.
(b) No operator or proprietor of a barber shop or barber college as defined herein shall employ any person, no matter how the employee may be compensated, who actively engages in the barber business, or as an instructor, unless the employee has been duly licensed as required in Section 45-52-30.04 or Section 45-52-30.05.