Rhode Island Code of Regulations
Title 216 - Department of health
Chapter 40 - Professional licensing and facility regulation
Subchapter 05 - Professional Licensing
Part 4 - Barbers, Hairdressers/Cosmeticians, Manicurists, Estheticians, and Instructors
Section 216-RICR-40-05-4.3 - Definitions

1. "Act" means R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter 5-10, entitled "Barbers, Hairdressers, Cosmeticians, Manicurists and Estheticians."

2. "Apprentice barber" means an employee whose principal occupation is service with a barber who has held a current license as a barber for at least three (3) years with a view to learning the "practice of barbering," as defined in § 4.3(A)(15) of this Part.

3. "Barber" means any person who shaves or trims the beard, waves, dresses, singes, shampoos or dyes the hair or applies hair tonics, cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, powders, oil clays, or lotions to scalp, face or neck of any person; or cuts the hair of any person, gives facial and scalp massages or treatments with oils, creams, lotions, or other preparations.

4. "Board" means the state Board of Barbering and Hairdressing as provided for in the Act.

5. "Department" means the Rhode Island Department of Health.

6. "Esthetician" means a person who engages in the practice of esthetics, and is licensed as an esthetician.

7. "Esthetician shop" means a shop licensed under the Act and this Part to do esthetics on any person.

8. "Esthetics" means the practice of cleaning, stimulating, manipulating and beautifying skin, including but not limited to the treatment of such skin problems as dehydration, temporary capillary dilation, excessive oiliness and clogged pores.

9. "Hair design shop" means a shop licensed under the Act and this Part to do barbering or hairdressing/cosmetic therapy, or both, to any person.

10. "Hairdresser and cosmetician" means any person who arranges, dresses, curls, cuts, waves, singes, bleaches or colors the hair or treats the scalp, or manicures the nails of any person either with or without compensation or who, by the use of the hands or appliances, or of cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, tonics, lotions, creams, powders, oils or clays, engages, with or without compensation, in massaging, cleansing, stimulating, manipulating, exercising or beautifying or in doing similar work upon the neck, face or arms or who removes superfluous hair from the body of any person.

11. "Instructor" means any person licensed as an instructor under the provisions of the Act and this Part.

12. "Manager" means a person licensed as a barber, hairdresser/cosmetician, manicurist or esthetician for at least one (1) year who is registered with the Department by the owner of the shop to be responsible for supervising the operation of the shop and its employees as it relates to the Act and this Part.

13. "Manicuring shop" means a shop licensed under the Act and this Part to do manicuring only on the nails of any person.

14. "Manicurist" means any person who engages in manicuring for compensation, and is licensed as a manicurist.

15. "The practice of barbering" means the engaging by any licensed barber in all or any combination of the following practices: shaving or trimming the beard or cutting the hair; giving facial and scalp massages or treatments with oils, creams, lotions, or other preparations either by hand or mechanical appliances; singeing, shampooing, arranging, dressing, curling, waving, chemical waving, hair relaxing, or dyeing the hair or applying hair tonics; applying cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, powders, oils, clays or lotions to scalp, face or neck.

16. "The practice of hairdressing and cosmetic therapy" means the engaging by any licensed hairdresser/cosmetician in any one (1) or more of the following practices: the application of the hands or of mechanical or electrical apparatus, with or without cosmetic preparations, tonics, lotions, creams, antiseptics, or clays, to massage, cleanse, stimulate, manipulate, exercise, or otherwise to improve or to beautify the scalp, face, neck, shoulders, arms, bust or upper part of the body or the manicuring of the nails and toenails of any person; or the removing of superfluous hair from the body of any person; or the arranging, dressing, curling, waving, weaving, cleansing, cutting, singeing, bleaching, coloring or similarly treating the hair of any person. Provided, however, that the practice of hairdressing and cosmetic therapy shall not include natural hair braiding.

17. "The practice of manicuring" means the cutting, trimming, polishing, tinting, coloring or cleansing the nails of any person.

18. "School" means a school approved under R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter 16-40 devoted to the instruction in and study of the theory and practice of barbering, hairdressing/cosmetic therapy, esthetics and/or manicuring.