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Ark. Code Ann. § 17-26-410

Instructor qualifications

Known as the Cosmetology Act

The act spans §§ 17-26-101 to 17-26-505 (62 sections).

Acts 1955, No. 358, Art. 8, § 3; 1961, No. 490, § 5; 1965, No. 403, § 6; 1973, No. 566, § 4; 1975, No. 532, § 3; 1977, No. 420, § 3; A.S.A. 1947, § 71-854; Acts 1987, No. 465, §…

(1) A person employed in a school to instruct students in the school shall be licensed as an instructor in the field in which he or she specializes.

(2) A licensed instructor in good standing is not required to renew his or her specialty license.

(3) A licensed instructor shall: Be twenty-one (21) years of age or older and have had six hundred (600) hours of teacher training in a school of cosmetology;

(4) Have passed an instructor's written examination given by the Department of Health, a practical examination administered by the school, and have received an instructor's license; and

(5) Have received not less than eight (8) hours of additional training in an instructor's training seminar or continuing education course certified by the department.

(6) A licensed instructor shall not teach outside the profession in which the license to practice allows.

(7) A cosmetology school shall offer an education in cosmetology regardless of whether the curriculum includes a specialty course.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.