Section 34-7A-13

School registration.

(a) Application for school registration shall be filed with the board on forms provided by the board.

(b) No school shall be granted a certificate of registration unless all of the following requirements are satisfied:

(1) The school employs and maintains two competent instructors, at least one for every 20 students in attendance, at any one time. If the school has more than 20 students enrolled, the school shall employ an additional instructor. If the school has less than 20 students enrolled, the school shall employ one instructor and one on-call instructor.

(2) The school possesses apparatus and equipment sufficient for the proper and complete teaching of all subjects in its curriculum.

(3) The school keeps a daily attendance record of each student.

(4) The school maintains regular classes and instruction hours, establishes grades, and conducts examinations before issuing diplomas.

(5) The school requires a school term of training for a complete course with the minimum number of hours therein prescribed.

(6) The school includes practical demonstrations, theoretical studies, and study in sanitation, sterilization, other safety measures and the use of antiseptics, cosmetics, and electrical appliances, consistent with the practical and theoretical requirements applicable to cosmetology or any practice of either.

(7) The school certifies that all furniture, equipment, tools, appliances, floors, and ceilings, are kept in a clean, sanitary, and safe condition.

(c) A school that enrolls student instructors shall not have at any one time more than two student instructors for each licensed instructor actively engaged in the school. A school engaged only in the teaching of estheticians or manicurists shall not be required to provide instruction in other practices of cosmetology but shall meet all other requirements imposed by the board upon a school of cosmetology pertaining to instructors, attendance records, enrollments, and other matters.

(Act 99-345, p. 478, §3.)