1. Apprentices or students shall be registered with the board and shall pay a student fee or an apprentice fee prior to beginning their course, and shall have an education equivalent to the successful completion of the tenth grade.

2. An apprentice or student shall not be enrolled in a course of study that shall exceed twelve hours per day or that is less than three hours per day. The course of study shall be no more than seventy-two hours per week and no less than fifteen hours per week.

Terms Used In Missouri Laws 329.070

  • Board: the state board of cosmetology and barber examiners. See Missouri Laws 329.010
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • student: a person who is engaged in training within a cosmetology establishment or school, and while so training performs any of the practices of the classified occupations within this chapter under the immediate direction and supervision of a licensed cosmetologist or instructor. See Missouri Laws 329.010

3. Every person desiring to act as an apprentice in any of the classified occupations within this chapter shall file with the board a written application on a form supplied to the applicant, together with the required apprentice fee.