Section 34-7A-19

Exemption from chapter.

(a) This chapter shall not apply to any of the following activities or services:

(1) Service in the case of emergency or domestic administration, without compensation.

(2) Services by persons authorized under the laws of this state to practice medicine, surgery, dentistry, chiropody, osteopathy, or chiropractic or the occupation of a masseur.

(3) The services by any barber, including barber's apprentices and shop boys, when engaged in any of the following practices:

a. Arranging, cleaning, cutting, styling, dressing, curling, applying permanent curling or styling solution, waving, bleaching, coloring, applying any cosmetic chemical preparation to or singeing the hair of any person.

b. Massaging, cleansing, stimulating, exercising, or similar work upon the scalp, face, or neck of any person with the hands, or with mechanical or electrical apparatus or appliance, or by the use of cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, tonics, lotions, or creams.

(4) The services of personnel of the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps.

(5) The services of registered nurses doing any of the acts or works defined as cosmetology.

(6) To the teaching or practice of cosmetology in training public school or trade school pupils.

(7) To any person who only occasionally dresses hair and receives no compensation therefor, or does any other act or thing mentioned in this chapter without holding himself or herself out to the public as a practicing cosmetologist.

(8) To any public trade school or other public school or school program under the purview of the State Board of Education or a local board of education.

(9) To departments in retail establishments where cosmetics are demonstrated and offered for sale but where no other acts of cosmetology are performed.

(b) Any person who knowingly interferes with any service, practice, or action exempted from this chapter shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

(Act 99-345, p. 478, §3.)