(a) Each licensed electrologist and each licensed electrology instructor shall pay the scheduled annual renewal fee to the commissioner, payable in advance, for the following year on or before December 31 of each year that such renewal fee is due.

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 63-26-120

  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of health and includes designees of the commissioner of health. See Tennessee Code 63-26-102
  • Electrologist: means any person practicing electrolysis for the permanent removal of hair. See Tennessee Code 63-26-102
  • Electrology: means the art and practice relating to the removal of hair from the normal skin of the human body by application of an electric current to the hair papilla by means of a needle or needles so as to cause growth inactivity of the hair papilla and thus permanently remove the hair. See Tennessee Code 63-26-102
  • Electrology instructor: means an electrologist who is licensed by the commissioner to practice and teach electrology. See Tennessee Code 63-26-102
  • Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • School: means an electrology school teaching the art of electrology. See Tennessee Code 63-26-102
  • Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(b) Each licensed electrology school shall pay the scheduled annual renewal fee to the commissioner, payable in advance, for the following year on or before December 1 of each year that such renewal fee is due.
(c) The commissioner shall renew the license of each licensee who meets the specified requirements for renewal or for registration.
(d) When any electrologist licensee, electrology instructor licensee, or licensed electrology school shall fail to register and pay the annual registration fee within sixty (60) days after such registration becomes due, the license of such person or school shall be automatically revoked without further notice or hearing.
(e) Any person or school whose license is automatically revoked may make application in writing to the commissioner for the reinstatement of such license, and upon good cause being shown, the commissioner, in the commissioner’s discretion, may reinstate such license upon payment of all past-due renewal fees and upon payment of the scheduled reinstatement fee.