(1) Subject to subsection (2) of this section, licenses issued under this chapter expire as follows:

Terms Used In Washington Code 18.16.170

  • Barber: means a person licensed under this chapter to engage in the practice of barbering. See Washington Code 18.16.020
  • Cosmetologist: means a person licensed under this chapter to engage in the practice of cosmetology. See Washington Code 18.16.020
  • Director: means the director of the department of licensing or the director's designee. See Washington Code 18.16.020
  • Esthetician: means a person licensed under this chapter to engage in the practice of esthetics. See Washington Code 18.16.020
  • Hair designer: means a person licensed under this chapter to engage in the practice of hair design. See Washington Code 18.16.020
  • Instructor: means a person who gives instruction in a school, or who provides classroom theory training to apprentices in locations other than in a school, in a curriculum in which he or she holds a license under this chapter, has completed at least five hundred hours of instruction in teaching techniques and lesson planning in a school, or who has documented experience as an instructor for more than five hundred hours in another state in the curriculum of study, and has passed a licensing examination approved or administered by the director. See Washington Code 18.16.020
  • Manicurist: means a person licensed under this chapter to engage in the practice of manicuring. See Washington Code 18.16.020
  • Master esthetician: means a person licensed under this chapter to engage in the practice of master esthetics. See Washington Code 18.16.020
  • Mobile unit: is a location license under this chapter where the practice of cosmetology, barbering, esthetics, master esthetics, or manicuring is conducted in a mobile structure. See Washington Code 18.16.020
  • Personal services: means a location licensed under this chapter where the practice of cosmetology, hair design, barbering, manicuring, esthetics, or master esthetics is performed for clients in the client's home, office, or other location that is convenient for the client. See Washington Code 18.16.020
  • School: means any establishment that offers curriculum of instruction in the practice of cosmetology, hair design, barbering, esthetics, master esthetics, manicuring, or instructor-trainee to students and is licensed under this chapter. See Washington Code 18.16.020
(a) A salon/shop, personal services, or mobile unit license expires one year from issuance or when the insurance required by RCW 18.16.175(1)(g) expires, whichever occurs first;
(b) A school license expires one year from issuance; and
(c) Cosmetologist, hair designer, barber, manicurist, esthetician, master esthetician, and instructor licenses expire two years from issuance.
(2) The director may provide for expiration dates other than those set forth in subsection (1) of this section for the purpose of establishing staggered renewal periods.

NOTES:

Effective date—2002 c 111: See note following RCW 18.16.010.
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