Wisconsin Administrative Code
Department of Safety and Professional Services
SPS 1-299 - Professional Services
SPS 50-69 - Barbering and Cosmetology Schools and Instructors
Chapter SPS 65 - Persons Providing Practical Instruction In Schools
Section SPS 65.12 - Prohibited conduct and discipline
Universal Citation: WI Admin Code ยง SPS 65.12
Current through February 26, 2024
(1) The department may take disciplinary action against any person holding an instructor's certificate who has:
(a) Made any false
statement or given any false information in connection with an application for
a certificate, or for renewal or reinstatement of a certificate.
(b) Been issued a certificate through
error.
(c) Been adjudicated
mentally incompetent by a court.
(d) Been found guilty of an offense the
circumstances of which substantially relate to the practice of an instructor in
a school or specialty school.
(e)
Violated ch. 440 or 454, Stats., ch. SPS 50, chs.
SPS 60 to
62, this chapter, or chs.
Cos 1 to
9.
(f) Practiced as an instructor in a school or
specialty school while the person's ability to practice was impaired by alcohol
or other drugs, or physical or mental disability or disease.
(g) Participated in false, misleading, or
deceptive advertising on the part of any school or specialty school, or
knowingly distributed or used school or specialty school student catalogs or
contracts which do not comply with these rules.
(h) Engaged in conduct which evidenced a lack
of knowledge or ability to apply principles or skills of barbering,
cosmetology, aesthetics, manicuring, or electrology, in which the person holds
an instructor's certificate.
(i)
Engaged in unprofessional conduct. "Unprofessional conduct" includes, but is
not limited to:
1. Engaging in any practice
which constitutes a danger to the health, welfare, or safety of a student or
the public.
2. Engaging in any
promises or threats to any student to obtain sexual or social contact or
anything of value.
3. Harassment of
a student because of the student's age, race, color, creed, marital status,
sex, sexual orientation, ancestry, national origin, or physical or mental
disability.
4. Intentionally
falsifying student records.
5.
Practicing or attempting to practice beyond the scope of the instructor's
certificate.
6. Having a license to
practice as a barber, or cosmetologist, or aesthetician, or manicurist, or
electrologist limited, suspended, or revoked, or being subject to any other
disciplinary action by any licensing authority regulating the practice of
barbering, cosmetology, aesthetics, manicuring, or electrology.
(2) The department may reprimand the holder of an instructor's certificate, or may limit, suspend, or revoke the instructor's certificate of any person who has engaged in any conduct prohibited by this chapter.
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