(225 ILCS 410/3-8) (from Ch. 111, par. 1703-8)
(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2016)
Sec. 3-8. Cosmetologists or cosmetology teachers registered or licensed elsewhere.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this Act, upon payment of the required fee, an applicant who is a cosmetologist or cosmetology teacher registered or licensed under the laws of a foreign country or province may be granted a license as a licensed cosmetologist or cosmetology teacher by the Department in its discretion upon the following conditions:
(1) The cosmetologist applicant is at least 16 years
of age and the cosmetology teacher applicant is at least 18 years of age; and
(2) The requirements for the registration or
licensing of cosmetologists or cosmetology teachers in the particular country or province were, at the date of the license, substantially equivalent to the requirements then in force for cosmetologists or cosmetology teachers in this State; or the applicant has established proof of legal practice as a cosmetologist or cosmetology teacher in another jurisdiction for at least 3 years; and
(3) If the Department, in its discretion and in
accordance with the rules, deems it necessary, then the applicant has passed an examination as required by this Act; and
(4) The applicant has met any other requirements of
this Act.
The Department shall prescribe reasonable rules governing the recognition of and the credit to be given to the study of cosmetology under a cosmetologist registered or licensed under the laws of a foreign country or province by an applicant for a license as a cosmetologist, and for the recognition of legal practice in another jurisdiction towards the education required under this Act.
(b) Except as otherwise provided in this Act, upon payment of the required fee, an applicant who is a cosmetologist or cosmetology teacher registered or licensed under the laws of another state or territory of the United States shall, without examination, be granted a license as a licensed cosmetologist or cosmetology teacher, whichever is applicable, by the Department upon the following conditions:
(1) The cosmetologist applicant is at least 16 years
of age and the cosmetology teacher applicant is at least 18 years of age; and
(2) The applicant submits to the Department
satisfactory evidence that the applicant is registered or licensed in another state or territory as a cosmetologist or cosmetology teacher; and
(3) The applicant has met any other requirements of
this Act.
(Source: P.A. 98-911, eff. 1-1-15.)
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