Alabama Code 34-5-7. Barber colleges – Certification for each separate location; establishment of new colleges
For the purposes of this chapter and the regulations of the board, each separate location at which the practice of barbering or any part thereof is taught shall be considered to be a barber college, and a separate certificate shall be required for each. However, facilities at which the practice of barbering or any part thereof is taught which are operated or maintained by a college in the same central area as the main establishment of the college shall not be deemed for the purposes of this chapter to be a separate college. No such facility shall be operated or maintained by a college until and unless each has been inspected and approved by the board in the same manner as is required before a certificate to operate a college may be issued, the fee prescribed by this chapter paid, and a certificate to operate and maintain the particular facility is issued by the board.
In considering whether the establishment of a new barber college in a particular area will be detrimental to the public welfare, the board shall consider the need for barber college facilities or additional barber college facilities, as the case may be, in the community where the proposed barber college is to be located, giving particular consideration to:
Terms Used In Alabama Code 34-5-7
- barber college: includes a school of barbering, college of barbering, barber school, and any other place or institution for the instruction or training of persons in the practice of barbering. See Alabama Code 34-5-6
- following: means next after. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
- person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
- practice of barbering: as used in this chapter , is hereby defined to mean any one or combination of the following practices, when done upon the human male body above the seventh cervical vertebra for cosmetic purposes and not for the treatment of disease or physical or mental ailments, and when done for payment, directly or indirectly or without payment for the public generally:
Shaving or trimming the beard or trimming the hair. See Alabama Code 34-5-1
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
No barber college shall be approved by the board unless it requires as a prerequisite to graduation a course or instruction of not less than 1,000 hours. The board shall approve all hours of instruction given by any of the state educational institutions and schools.
The course of instruction shall include the following subjects: Scientific fundamentals of barbering, hygiene and bacteriology; history of the head, face and neck; elementary chemistry as it relates to sterilization and asepsis; diseases of the skin and hair glands; and the massaging and manipulation of the muscles of the body above the seventh cervical vertebra; hair cutting and shaving; and the arranging, dressing, coloring, bleaching, and tinting of the hair.