§ 271 - Definitions - Vermont Statutes

§ 271. Definitions

For the purposes of this chapter:

(1) "Barbering" means engaging in the continuing performance, for compensation, of any of the following activities: cutting, shampooing, or styling hair; shaving the face, shaving around the vicinity of the ears and neckline, or trimming facial hair; facials, skin care, or scalp massages, and bleaching, coloring, straightening, permanent waving hair or similar work by any means, with hands or mechanical or electrical apparatus or appliances. Barbering also includes esthetics.

(2) "Board" means the board of barbers and cosmetologists.

(3) "Cosmetology" means engaging in the continuing performance, for compensation, of any of the following activities:

(A) Work on the hair of any person, including dressing, curling, waving, cleansing, cutting, bleaching, coloring, or similar work by any means, with hands or mechanical or electrical apparatus or appliances.

(B) Esthetics.

(C) Manicuring.

(4) "Disciplinary action" or "disciplinary cases" includes any action taken by the board against a licensee, registrant or applicant premised upon a finding of wrongdoing or unprofessional conduct by the licensee or applicant. It includes all sanctions of any kind, excluding obtaining injunctions, but including issuing warnings, other similar sanctions and ordering restitution.

(5) "Esthetics" means massaging, cleansing, stimulating, manipulating, beautifying or otherwise working on the scalp, face or neck, by using cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, tonics, lotions or creams. "Esthetics" does not include the sale or application of cosmetics to customers in retail stores or customers' homes.

(6) "Financial interest" means being:

(A) a licensed barber;

(B) a licensed cosmetologist: or

(C) a person who has invested anything of value in a business that provides barbering or cosmetology services.

(7) "Manicuring" or "nail technician practice" means the nonmedical treatment of a person's fingernails or toenails or the skin in the vicinity of the nails, and includes the use of cosmetic preparations or appliances.

(8) "School of barbering or cosmetology" means a facility or facilities regularly used to train or instruct persons in the practice of barbering or cosmetology.

(9) "Shop" means a facility or facilities regularly used to offer or provide barbering or cosmetology. (Added 1997, No. 40, § 16; amended 2005, No. 27, § 19.)