(1) The board shall promulgate administrative regulations including but not limited to administrative regulations that:
(a) Protect the health and safety of the public;

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 317A.060

  • Board: means the Kentucky Board of Cosmetology. See Kentucky Statutes 317A.010
  • Cosmetology: means the practice of: (a) Hair styling. See Kentucky Statutes 317A.010
  • Esthetic practices: means one (1) or more of the following acts:
    (a) Beautifying, cleansing, cosmetic preparations, exfoliating, facials, makeup, removal of superfluous hair, stimulation, tinting, tweezing, or waxing. See Kentucky Statutes 317A.010
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Instructor: means any individual licensed to teach cosmetology, esthetics, or nail technology who holds a corresponding license in cosmetology, esthetics practice, or nail technology. See Kentucky Statutes 317A.010
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010

(b) Protect the public against incompetent or unethical practice, misrepresentation, deceit, or fraud in the practice or teaching of beauty culture;
(c) Set standards for the operation of the schools and salons; (d) Protect the students under this chapter;
(e) Set standards for the location and housing of beauty salons or cosmetology schools in the state. This subsection does not apply to the instructional programs in cosmetology in the state area vocational and technical schools;
(f) Set standards for the quantity and quality of equipment, supplies, materials, records, and furnishings required in beauty salons, esthetic salons, nail salons, and cosmetology, esthetic practices, and nail technology schools;
(g) Establish the qualifications of instructors of cosmetology, instructors of esthetic practices, instructors of nail technology, and apprentice teachers;
(h) Establish requirements for the hours and courses of instruction at cosmetology schools and esthetic practices schools and nail technology schools;
(i) Establish requirements for the examinations of applicants for licenses;
(j) Establish the requirements for the proper education and training of students;
(k) Address the course and conduct of school owners, instructors, instructor training certificate holders, licensed cosmetologists, estheticians, nail technicians, beauty salons, esthetic salons, nail salons, cosmetology schools, schools of esthetic practices, and schools of nail technology; and
(l) Establish a code of ethics for persons licensed by the board.
(2) Administrative regulations pertaining to health and sanitation shall be approved by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services before becoming effective.
Effective: July 14, 2022
History: Amended 2022 Ky. Acts ch. 235, sec. 7, effective July 14, 2022. — Amended
2018 Ky. Acts ch. 46, sec. 17, effective March 30, 2018. — Amended 2012 Ky. Acts ch. 152, sec. 6, effective July 12, 2012. — Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 82, sec. 5, effective July 15, 1996. — Amended 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 202, sec. 2, effective July 15,
1980. — Created 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 354, sec. 6.
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/12/2006). 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 675, instructs the Reviser of Statutes to correct statutory references to agencies and officers whose names have been changed in the Act, as it confirms the establishment of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. Such a correction has been made in this section.