The commission of any of the following acts is a petty offense:

(1) The practice of barbering without a certificate of registration;

Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 36-14-36

  • Person: includes natural persons, partnerships, associations, cooperative corporations, limited liability companies, and corporations. See South Dakota Codified Laws 2-14-2
  • Petty offense: A federal misdemeanor punishable by six months or less in prison. Source: U.S. Courts

(2) Permitting any person in one’s employ, supervision, or control to practice as a barber, unless that person has a certificate of registration;

(3) Obtaining a certificate of registration by fraudulent misrepresentation;

(4) Failing to display the certificate of registration as required by this chapter;

(5) Using any room or place for barbering which is also used for residential or business purposes, unless a substantial partition of ceiling height separates the portion used for residential or business purposes. The practice of cosmetology or the sale of hair tonics, lotions, creams, cutlery, toilet articles, cigars, or tobacco, may not be construed to mean business purposes;

(6) Failing or refusing to use separate and clean towels for each person served or to discard or launder each towel after once being used; or

(7) Failing or refusing to supply clean hot and cold water in a quantity necessary to conduct any barbershop in a sanitary manner; failing or refusing to have water and sewerage connections with a water and sewage system, where the latter is available; or failing or refusing to maintain a receptacle for hot water of a capacity of less than five gallons.

Source: SDC 1939, § 27.1619; SL 1977, ch 190, § 178; SL 1979, ch 257, § 9; SL 2017, ch 175, § 14.