329.040. Schools of cosmetology--license requirements, application, form--hours required for student cosmetologists, nail technicians and estheticians. - Missouri Statutes

Schools of cosmetology--license requirements, application, form--hoursrequired for student cosmetologists, nail technicians andestheticians.

329.040. 1. Any person of good moral character may make application tothe board for a license to own a school of cosmetology on a form provided uponrequest by the board. Every school of cosmetology in which any of theclassified occupations of cosmetology are taught shall be required to obtain alicense from the board prior to opening. The license shall be issued uponapproval of the application by the board, the payment of the required fees,and the applicant meets other requirements provided in this chapter. Thelicense shall be kept posted in plain view within the school at all times.

2. A school license renewal fee shall be due on or before the renewaldate of any school license issued pursuant to this section. If the schoollicense renewal fee is not paid on or before the renewal date, a late feeshall be added to the regular school license fee.

3. No school of cosmetology shall be granted a license pursuant to thischapter unless it:

(1) Employs and has present in the school a competent licensedinstructor for every twenty-five students in attendance for a given classperiod and one to ten additional students may be in attendance with theassistance of an instructor trainee. One instructor is authorized to teach upto three instructor trainees immediately after being granted an instructor'slicense;

(2) Requires all students to be enrolled in a course of study of no lessthan three hours per day and no more than twelve hours per day with a weeklytotal that is no less than fifteen hours and no more than seventy-two hours;

(3) Requires for the classified occupation of cosmetologist, the courseof study shall be no less than one thousand five hundred hours or, for astudent in public vocational/technical school no less than one thousand twohundred twenty hours; provided that, a school may elect to base the course ofstudy on credit hours by applying the credit hour formula in Subpart A of Part668 of Section 668.8 of Title 34 of the Code of Federal Regulations, asamended. The student must earn a minimum of one hundred and sixty hours orequivalent credits of classroom training before the student may perform any ofthe acts of the classified occupation of cosmetology on any patron or customerof the school of cosmetology;

(4) Requires for the classified occupation of manicurist, the course ofstudy shall be no less than four hundred hours or the credit hours determinedby the formula in Subpart A of Part 668 of Section 668.8 of Title 34 of theCode of Federal Regulations, as amended. The student must earn a minimum offifty hours or equivalent credits of classroom training before the student mayperform any of the acts of the classified occupation of manicurist on anypatron or customer of the school of cosmetology;

(5) Requires for the classified occupation of esthetician, the course ofstudy shall be no less than seven hundred fifty hours or the credit hoursdetermined by the formula in Subpart A of Part 668 of Section 668.8 of Title34 of the Code of Federal Regulations, as amended. The student shall earn aminimum of seventy-five hours or equivalent credits of classroom trainingbefore the student may perform any of the acts of the classified occupation ofesthetics on any patron or customer of the school of cosmetology or anesthetics school.

4. The subjects to be taught for the classified occupation ofcosmetology shall be as follows and the hours required for each subject shallbe not less than those contained in this subsection or the credit hoursdetermined by the formula in Subpart A of Part 668 of Section 668.8 of Title34 of the Code of Federal Regulations, as amended:

(1) Shampooing of all kinds, forty hours;

(2) Hair coloring, bleaches and rinses, one hundred thirty hours;

(3) Hair cutting and shaping, one hundred thirty hours;

(4) Permanent waving and relaxing, one hundred twenty-five hours;

(5) Hairsetting, pin curls, fingerwaves, thermal curling, two hundredtwenty-five hours;

(6) Combouts and hair styling techniques, one hundred five hours;

(7) Scalp treatments and scalp diseases, thirty hours;

(8) Facials, eyebrows and arches, forty hours;

(9) Manicuring, hand and arm massage and treatment of nails, one hundredten hours;

(10) Cosmetic chemistry, twenty-five hours;

(11) Salesmanship and shop management, ten hours;

(12) Sanitation and sterilization, thirty hours;

(13) Anatomy, twenty hours;

(14) State law, ten hours;

(15) Curriculum to be defined by school, not less than four hundredseventy hours.

5. The subjects to be taught for the classified occupation of manicuristshall be as follows and the hours required for each subject shall be not lessthan those contained in this subsection or the credit hours determined by theformula in Subpart A of Part 668 of Section 668.8 of Title 34 of the Code ofFederal Regulations, as amended:

(1) Manicuring, hand and arm massage and treatment of nails, two hundredtwenty hours;

(2) Salesmanship and shop management, twenty hours;

(3) Sanitation and sterilization, twenty hours;

(4) Anatomy, ten hours;

(5) State law, ten hours;

(6) Study of the use and application of certain chemicals, forty hours;and

(7) Curriculum to be defined by school, not less than eighty hours.

6. The subjects to be taught for the classified occupation ofesthetician shall be as follows, and the hours required for each subject shallnot be less than those contained in this subsection or the credit hoursdetermined by the formula in Subpart A of Part 668 of Section 668.8 of Title34 of the Code of Federal Regulations, as amended:

(1) Facials, cleansing, toning, massaging, one hundred twenty hours;

(2) Makeup application, all phases, one hundred hours;

(3) Hair removal, thirty hours;

(4) Body treatments, aromatherapy, wraps, one hundred twenty hours;

(5) Reflexology, thirty-five hours;

(6) Cosmetic sciences, structure, condition, disorder, eighty-fivehours;

(7) Cosmetic chemistry, products and ingredients, seventy-five hours;

(8) Salon management and salesmanship, fifty-five hours;

(9) Sanitation and sterilization, safety, forty-five hours;

(10) State law, ten hours; and

(11) Curriculum to be defined by school, not less than seventy-fivehours.

7. Training for all classified occupations shall include practicaldemonstrations, written and/or oral tests, and practical instruction insanitation, sterilization and the use of antiseptics, cosmetics and electricalappliances consistent with the practical and theoretical requirements asapplicable to the classified occupations as provided in this chapter.

8. No school of cosmetology shall operate within this state unless aproper license pursuant to this chapter has first been obtained.

9. Nothing contained in this chapter shall prohibit a licensee within acosmetology establishment from teaching any of the practices of the classifiedoccupations for which the licensee has been licensed for not less than twoyears in the licensee's regular course of business, if the owner or manager ofthe business does not hold himself or herself out as a school and does nothire or employ or personally teach regularly at any one and the same time,more than one apprentice to each licensee regularly employed within theowner's business, not to exceed one apprentice per establishment, and theowner, manager, or trainer does not accept any fee for instruction.

10. Each licensed school of cosmetology shall provide a minimum of twothousand square feet of floor space, adequate rooms and equipment, includinglecture and demonstration rooms, lockers, an adequate library and tworestrooms. The minimum equipment requirements shall be: six shampoo bowls,ten hair dryers, two master dustproof and sanitary cabinets, wet sterilizers,and adequate working facilities for twenty students.

11. Each licensed school of cosmetology for manicuring only shallprovide a minimum of one thousand square feet of floor space, adequate roomfor theory instruction, adequate equipment, lockers, an adequate library, tworestrooms and a clinical working area for ten students. Minimum floor spacerequirement proportionately increases with student enrollment of over tenstudents.

12. Each licensed school of cosmetology for esthetics only shall providea minimum of one thousand square feet of floor space, adequate room for theoryinstruction, adequate equipment, lockers, an adequate library, two restroomsand a clinical working area for ten students. Minimum floor space requirementincreases fifty square feet per student with student enrollment of over ten.

13. No school of cosmetology may have a greater number of studentsenrolled and scheduled to be in attendance for a given class period than thetotal floor space of that school will accommodate. Floor space required perstudent shall be no less than fifty square feet per additional student beyondtwenty students for a school of cosmetology, beyond ten students for a schoolof manicuring and beyond ten students for a school of esthetics.

14. Each applicant for a new school shall file a written applicationwith the board upon a form approved and furnished upon request by the board.The applicant shall include a list of equipment, the proposed curriculum, andthe name and qualifications of any and all of the instructors.

15. Each school shall display in a conspicuous place, visible upon entryto the school, a sign stating that all cosmetology services in this school areperformed by students who are in training.

16. Any student who wishes to remain in school longer than the requiredtraining period may make application for an additional training license andremain in school. A fee is required for such additional training license.

17. All contractual fees that a student owes to any cosmetology schoolshall be paid before such student may be allowed to apply for any examinationrequired to be taken by an applicant applying for a license pursuant to theprovisions of this chapter.

(RSMo 1939 § 9813, A.L. 1945 p. 959, A.L. 1959 S.B. 283, A.L. 1979 H.B. 960, A.L. 1981 S.B. 16, A.L. 1987 S.B. 248 & 278, A.L. 1989 H.B. 738 & 720, A.L. 1995 S.B. 292, A.L. 1997 H.B. 309, A.L. 2001 H.B. 567)

Prior revision: 1929 § 9092