Arkansas Code Title 17, Subtitle 2, Chapter 26, Subchapter 4 - Cosmetological Schools and Establishments

• § 17-26-401 - License Requirements.
  (a) No person, firm, or corporation shall conduct or operate a cosmetological establishment, school of cosmetology, beauty parlor, or any other place of business...
• § 17-26-402 - Cosmetological Establishments -- License.
  (a) A person, firm, or corporation desiring to operate a cosmetological establishment shall make an application to the Department of Health for a license.(b)...
• § 17-26-403 - School of Cosmetology -- Application to Operate -- License.
  (a) Schools of cosmetology shall be conducted as provided in this subchapter.(b) (1) A person, firm, or corporation desiring to conduct a school of...
• § 17-26-404 - Licensing Requirements -- Expiration -- Renewal.
  (a) Licensing for cosmetological establishments and schools of cosmetology expires pursuant to § 17-26-319(b).(b) An application for renewal of a license shall be filed...
• § 17-26-405 - Facilities -- Prohibition on Use.
  (a) No person having charge of a cosmetological establishment or school of cosmetology, whether as an owner or an employee, shall permit any room...
• § 17-26-406 - Refusal or Cancellation of School License -- Causes.
  (a) A school shall not be licensed until the Department of Health has had ample opportunity to verify sworn statements as to the actual...
• § 17-26-407 - Inspection of School Facilities.
  (a) Before any school license under this subchapter shall be finally granted, a second inspection shall be made after the equipment has been installed...
• § 17-26-408 - Duties of School.
  Each school shall: (1) Possess sufficient apparatus and equipment necessary for the ready and full teaching of all the subjects or practices of cosmetology;...
• § 17-26-409 - School Supervisor.
  Every school shall at all times be in charge of and under the supervision of a licensed cosmetologist manager-operator who has had at least...
• § 17-26-410 - Instructor Qualifications.
  (a) Each person employed in a school to instruct students in the school shall be a licensed cosmetologist, aesthetician, manicurist, or electrologist who: (1)...
• § 17-26-411 - Instructors -- Duties -- Number.
  (a) All instructors shall be continuously engaged in teaching students in theoretical or practical work. Except when instructing a student, an instructor may not...
• § 17-26-412 - School Term -- Cosmetology Curriculum.
  (a) Each school shall maintain a school term of not less than one thousand five hundred (1,500) hours, instruction of which shall not be...
• § 17-26-413 - Electrology Course.
  (a) (1) An electrology course established by a school of cosmetology shall consist of three hundred fifty (350) hours or six hundred (600) hours...
• § 17-26-414 - Special Programs.
  (a) Instruction shall not exceed eight (8) hours per day and six (6) days per week during the program.(b) When a student completes the...
• § 17-26-415 - Student Registration -- Reregistration on Transfer.
  (a) (1) All students of cosmetology, manicuring, electrology, aesthetics, and instructor training shall be registered with the Department of Health before accredited hours can...
• § 17-26-416 - [Repealed.]
• § 17-26-417 - Student Work.
  (a) In each licensed school of cosmetology: (1) A student for a license as a cosmetologist, after one hundred fifty (150) hours of instruction,...
• § 17-26-418 - Cosmetology Courses in Public Schools.
  (a) (1) All public educational institutions operating cosmetological schools shall comply with the standards and rules promulgated by the State Board of Health. (2)...

Last modified: November 15, 2016