North Dakota Code 43-11-27 – Instructor’s license – Student instructor’s license – Registration – Qualifications
1. No individual may be licensed as an instructor of cosmetology unless the individual passes a theory and a practical examination required by the board after paying the examination fee set forth in section 43-11-28 and provides evidence of having a general education equivalent to the completion of four years in high school. An applicant:
Terms Used In North Dakota Code 43-11-27
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Individual: means a human being. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- Person: means an individual, organization, government, political subdivision, or government agency or instrumentality. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- Rule: includes regulation. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- year: means twelve consecutive months. See North Dakota Code 1-01-33
a. Shall possess a current North Dakota license as a cosmetologist, esthetician, or manicurist and must have at least nine hundred sixty hours instructor’s training in cosmetology in a school of cosmetology; b. Shall possess a current North Dakota license as a cosmetologist, esthetician, or manicurist and must have been actively engaged in the practice under the scope of the applicant’s license for at least one year before application for an instructor’s license, supplemented by not less than four hundred eighty hours instructor’s training in a school of cosmetology or course of training approved by the board; or
c. Shall possess a current North Dakota license as a cosmetologist, esthetician, or manicurist and shall have been actively engaged in the practice of cosmetology for at least three years prior to application for an instructor’s license supplemented by not less than one hundred sixty hours instructor’s training in a school of cosmetology or course of training approved by the board. No instructor or student instructor may be permitted to practice cosmetology on a patron other than that part of practical work which pertains directly to the teaching of practical operations to students.
2. Student instructors must be registered with the board. The board must record the name, age, and qualifications of the student instructor in a register. A student instructor shall possess, at the time of enrollment, a general education equivalent to the completion of four years in high school and hold a license as a cosmetologist. Upon completion of the course prescribed for student instructors, the student instructor shall make application on a form provided by the board and pay a fee as provided in section 43-11-28. The board then shall cause the applicant to be examined for an instructor’s license. The examination must be given by a special examining committee comprised of the board, assisted by one person designated by the board. Upon successfully passing the examination, the board shall issue an instructor’s license to the applicant.
3. No individual is entitled to renew an instructor’s license unless the instructor has furnished to the board evidence of completion of the continuing education established by the board by rule.
4. Licensed estheticians and manicurists may only provide instruction within the scope of practice of the respective licenses determined under this chapter.