§439-17 Beauty shops. (a) A license for a beauty shop may be secured by filing an application and paying the application and license fees and showing that the shop has been inspected not more than one year before the application was filed and meets the standards of sanitation required by the department of health, that a licensed beauty operator in the appropriate licensure category shall be in charge of the shop, and that it is adequately equipped for the practices in which it engages.
(b) All licenses shall expire on December 31 in each odd-numbered year. Licenses may be renewed by payment of a biennial fee prior to the date of expiration. A lapsed license may be restored upon payment of all delinquent fees and a penalty fee.
(c) Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit licensed beauty operators within a beauty shop from teaching any of the practices of cosmetology in which the beauty operator is licensed in the regular course of business; provided that the owners or beauty operators do not hold themselves out as a school, and do not hire or employ or teach, regularly, at any one time, more than one apprentice unless there is one beauty operator regularly employed in the business for each apprentice.
(d) The beauty shop owner shall be responsible for all operations of the shop and shall be responsible to see that only currently licensed individuals, apprentices, or temporary permittees are practicing in the shop.
(e) Transfer of ownership, change in beauty shop name, and relocation of a beauty shop shall require filing of an application together with required fees.
(f) The beauty shop shall maintain records of appointments and services offered to clients, as prescribed by the rules of the board, for a period of three years.
(g) All beauty shops shall have equipment and facilities as prescribed by the rules of the board. [L 1949, c 397, pt of §1; RL 1955, §59-18; am L Sp 1959 2d, c 1, §19; am L 1961, c 142, §2(f), (g); HRS §439-17; am L 1980, c 15, §2; am L 1981, c 47, §3; am L 1983, c 210, §11; am L 1984, c 7, §§13, 14; am L 1986, c 139, §8; am L 1987, c 154, §17; am L 1989, c 153, §10; am L 1991, c 180, §4; am L 1992, c 202, §42; am L 1997, c 87, §11]
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