Current through August 31, 2023
The Board may grant a license to an applicant for licensure to
operate a barber or cosmetology school who meets the following requirements:
(3-28-23)
01.
Premises.
The premises of a barber or cosmetology school must: (3-28-23)
a. Possess sufficient apparatus and equipment
for the proper and full teaching of all subjects or its curriculum.
(3-28-23)
b. Provide adequate
space, ventilation, lighting, and facilities to safely accommodate all
students, instructors, and customers. (3-28-23)
c. Provide a restroom with a sink with hot
and cold running water and approved drainage system.
(3-28-23)
02.
Faculty or Instructors. (3-28-23)
a. A school must be under the direct,
personal supervision at all times of a licensed cosmetology instructor if a
cosmetology school or a licensed barber or barber-stylist instructor if a
barber school and must employ and maintain a licensed instructor for every
twenty (20) students or fraction thereof, with an instructor trainee counting
as an instructor for the purposes of the student-instructor ratio.
(3-28-23)
b. A cosmetology school
that teaches electrology must be under the direct, personal supervision at all
times of one (1) licensed electrologist instructor for every six (6) students
or portion thereof being trained therein. (3-28-23)
c. An instructor shall teach only those
subject areas for which the instructor has been issued a license by the Board
to practice. (3-28-23)
d.
Instructors must devote their time during school or class hours to instructing
students rather than engaging in occupational practice.
(3-28-23)
03.
Operations. A barber or cosmetology school must: (3-28-23)
a. Maintain regular class and instruction
hours, establish grades and hold monthly examinations. This information will be
transferred to the record of instruction; (3-28-23)
b. Prescribe a school term for training in
all aspects of the practice being taught; and (3-28-23)
04.
Curriculum. Any proposed
changes to a curriculum or catalog must be approved by the Board. The
submission must identify what specific changes are being made to the
curriculum. (3-28-23)
a. A school must submit
a curriculum and course catalog that covers the subjects, as set forth in
Section 54-5815, Idaho Code, relating to
the profession for which the school is seeking approval to teach.
(3-28-23)
b. A cosmetology school
that teaches electrology must submit a curriculum and course catalog that
covers the subjects relating to electrology as set forth in Section
54-5815(1), Idaho
Code. (3-28-23)
c. A school may
teach no more than fifty percent (50%) of its curriculum through distance
education. (3-28-23)
05.
Clinical Work. Each school shall advertise to the public that it
is a school and that all work is done by students. The clinic area shall not
have connecting entrances to establishments or businesses other than barber or
cosmetology schools. (3-28-23)
a. Students
shall not be permitted to render any clinical service to patrons until students
have completed at least five percent (5%) of the required hours of instruction.
(3-28-23)
b. All clinical work
shall be performed under the supervision of a licensed instructor.
(3-28-23)
c. Clinical work shall be
recorded on the record of instruction for each month.
(3-28-23)
06.
Outside School Activities. Schools may credit a student with a
maximum of thirty (30) hours toward the required hours of instruction for a
course of instruction for activities that take place outside the school. These
hours must be approved by the instructor. (3-28-23)
07.
Student Records To be Maintained by
the School. A school must maintain the following records for each
enrolled student: (3-28-23)
a. Proof of age
showing student is no less than sixteen and one-half (16 'A) years of age;
(3-28-23)
b. Proof of showing
student has satisfactorily completed two (2) years of high school (tenth grade)
or having equivalent education as evidenced in a manner identified in
Subsection 300.02 of these rules;
(3-28-23)
c. Record of instruction
for each student showing the classroom hours, the clinical hours, and
operations done for each month in which the student is enrolled; and
(3-28-23)
d. When a student's
course of instruction has been completed or terminated, the completed
operations, and number of hours of instruction are to be recorded by the school
on the record of instruction form. This form is to be provided to the student
and maintained by the school for five (5) years from completion or termination.
(3-28-23)
08.
Change in Ownership or Location. (3-28-23)
a. Licenses are not transferable.
(3-28-23)
b. A new application must
be submitted to the Board and a license issued for a new or additional location
or a change of ownership of an existing school. (3-28-23)
09.
Cessation of School. When a
school ceases to operate as a school, the school must provide each enrolled
student their records of instruction at or before the cessation of operations.
(3-28-23)
10.
Rules for
Cosmetology Schools Approved to Teach Electrology. (3-28-23)
a. Schools will provide a minimum of three
hundred (300) square feet of designated floor space per six (6) students.
(3-28-23)
b. Each school shall have
the following equipment, which is considered the minimum equipment necessary
for the proper instruction of students. This amount of equipment is based on
six (6) students. (3-28-23)
i. Work stations
equal to seventy-five percent (75%) of total enrollment; (3-28-23)
ii. Two (2) brands of machines, one (1) of
which has three (3) method capability: Galvanic, Thermolysis, and Blend;
(3-28-23)
iii. Two (2) treatment
tables and adjustable technician chairs; (3-28-23)
iv. Two (2) swing arm lamps with magnifying
lens; (3-28-23)
v. Two (2)
magnifying glasses; (3-28-23)
vi.
Tweezers; (3-28-23)
vii. One (1)
basin with approved water source; (3-28-23)
viii. Necessary sanitation equipment for
implements; and (3-28-23)
ix.
Closed storage cabinet. (3-28-23)
c. Student Supplies. Each student is to be
issued a basic kit containing two (2) tweezers, disposable probes, eye shields,
disposable gloves, before treatment solution, after treatment lotion, hair pins
or clips, and one (1) sharps container. (3-28-23)
