The Guam Board of Barbering and Cosmetology shall issue a license to any person who is properly licensed for a period of at least two (2) years in any State or Territory of the United States if the applicant submits:

(a) Application; (b) Fee;
(c) Proof that he or she is currently licensed in good standing as a cosmetologist, barber, barber-stylist, esthetician, electrologist, manicurist or nail technician, nail technician instructor, or the equivalent in that jurisdiction;

(d) Provides proof that he or she has passed the Nationally Standardized Theory and Practical Exam from their State or Territory of the United States with the minimum passing score approved by their State or Territory of the United States;

(e) An applicant from another State that does not require a board administered practical exam and has passed the same Nationally Standardized Theory Exam as required in Guam, shall be required to take the practical phase of the exam only;

(f) If the Board is unable to ascertain from documents submitted by the applicant that the applicant is eligible for reciprocity, the Board may require the applicant to provide additional documentation or information deemed by the Board as necessary to make that decision. Oral interviews

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may be requested;

(g) If the applicant is denied on the basis of initial application materials, the reasons for this rejection shall be communicated in writing. The applicant shall have the right of reconsideration based on submission of new information and/or appearance before the Board with the opportunity to demonstrate to the Board that they meet the licensure requirements;

(h) Applicant must have a current cosmetology, barber, barber-stylist, esthetician, electrologist or nail technician license from another State of Territory of the United States where similar reciprocity is extended to Guam, and licensure requirements and training hours are substantially equal to or greater than those licenses applied for in the Chapter; or

(i) If an applicant receives a cosmetology license under the reciprocity conditions of this Section, such licensee shall be employed by a Guam licensed cosmetology business and practice the art of cosmetology on Guam for a period of not less than two (2) years before such licensee may obtain a business license to establish a new cosmetology business on Guam.

§ 18115. Eligibility and Qualifications for Cosmetologist
License.

Examination. The Board shall administer examinations for a license for cosmetologists during a Board meeting duly held for the purpose of administering examinations to applicants who have made the proper applications for such license and who has qualified as follows:

(a) who is not less than eighteen (18) years of age; (b) who has had any one (1) of the following:
(1) completed a certified cosmetology program of at least one thousand six hundred (1,600) hours extending over a school year of not less than nine (9) months from a school of cosmetology approved by the Board;

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(2) practiced cosmetology, as defined in this Chapter, outside of Guam for a period of time equivalent to the study and training of a qualified person who has completed a course in cosmetology from a school curriculum which complied with requirements adopted by the Board; or

(3) holds a current unrestricted valid cosmetologist license issued by a State or Territory of the United States in good standing, whose license requirements in the judgment of the Board are equal to or greater than Guam’s.

2017 NOTE: Subsection/subitem designations deleted/altered pursuant to the authority of 1 Guam Code Ann. § 1606.