Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 46 - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL STANDARDS
Part VII - Barbers
Chapter 15 - Barber Students
Section VII-1501 - Statutory Requirements
Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 3, March 20, 2024
A. No students can commence barber school prior to their seventeenth birthday.
B. Must be of good moral character and temperate habit.
C. Shows proof of graduation from high school or its equivalent.
D. Graduation of a course or instruction of not less than 1,500 hours completed within nine months with no more than eight hours to any one working day subject to the board's authority to determine by regulation the days and hours of school within these limits.
E. The course of instruction shall include the following subjects: scientific fundamentals of barbering, hygiene and bacteriology; history of the hair, skin, muscles and nerves; structure of the head, face, and neck; elementary chemistry as it relates to sterilization and asepsis; diseases of the skin and hair glands; the massaging and manipulating of the muscles of the body above the seventh cervical vertebra; hair cutting and shaving; and the arranging, dressing, coloring, bleaching and tinting of the hair.
F. Passes satisfactorily an examination conducted by the Board of Barber Examiners to determine his/her fitness to practice barbering.
AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 37:341-392.
