§ 5-32-4 - Qualifications of applicants. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 5-32-4

   § 5-32-4  Qualifications of applicants.– Licenses to engage in the practice of electrolysis shall be issued to theapplicants who comply with the following requirements:

   (1) Are citizens or legal residents of the United States.

   (2) Have attained the age of eighteen (18) years.

   (3) Have graduated from a high school or whose education isthe equivalent of a high school education.

   (4) Have satisfactorily completed a course of training andstudy in electrolysis as a registered apprentice under the supervision of alicensed Rhode Island electrologist who is qualified to teach electrolysis toapprentices as prescribed in § 5-32-17 or has graduated from a school ofelectrolysis after having satisfactorily completed a program consisting of notless than six hundred fifty (650) hours of study and practice in the theory andpractical application of electrolysis. That apprenticeship includes at leastsix hundred and fifty (650) hours of study and practice in the theory andpractical application of electrolysis within a term of nine (9) months;provided, that the apprentice registers with the division of professionalregulation of the department of health upon beginning his or her course ofinstruction, and the licensed person with whom he or she serves thatapprenticeship keeps a record of the hours of that instruction, and upon thecompletion of that apprenticeship certifies that fact to the board of examinersin electrolysis.

   (5) Is of good moral character.

   (6) Passes an examination approved by the department ofhealth.