History: 1965 acts added twenty-one-year age requirement and three-year assistant's license alternative and raised
minimum training and experience alternative from three years in Subdiv. (7) and added sixteen-year age and eighth-grade
requirement in Subdiv. (8); 1969 act redefined "operator", clarifying education level required of applicants before and
after July 1, 1972, and redefined "registered hairdresser and cosmetician" to allow passing equivalency examination as
alternative to tenth grade education; 1972 act changed minimum age requirement for hairdresser and cosmetician from
twenty-one to eighteen, reflecting lowered age of majority; P.A. 77-519 deleted requirement that person be or intend to
become a U.S. citizen in Subdivs. (1), (5), (6) and (7); P.A. 77-614 replaced secretary of the state board of education with
commissioner of education and commissioner and department of health with commissioner and department of health
services, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-484 deleted definitions of "assistant hairdresser and cosmetician" and "instructor" and defined "board" renumbering Subdivs. accordingly, deleted minimum age requirements for operators, hairdresser
and cosmeticians and students, replaced references to females with references to "any person" in Subdiv. (4) and deleted
references to holding of assistant hairdresser and cosmetician's license in Subdiv. (6), formerly Subdiv. (7); P.A. 81-471
amended section to clarify that term "manicuring" applies to fingernails, to delete reference to "operator", to clarify
that unlicensed persons may perform facials, eyebrow arching, shampooing and manicuring, to substitute approval of
hairdressing schools for licensure and to increase the entry level educational requirements for hairdressing and cosmetology
students from eighth grade to ninth grade; P.A. 84-33 amended Subsec. (4) to include pedicures in the definition of
hairdressing and cosmetology; P.A. 93-381 replaced department and commissioner of health services with department and
commissioner of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and
Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July
1, 1995; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 99-2 amended Subdiv. (4) by deleting "manicuring of the fingernails" and adding "braiding
hair"; P.A. 01-195 made technical changes, effective July 11, 2001; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-4 amended Subdiv. (4) by
adding provision re unlicensed person performing manicuring of the fingernails, effective July 1, 2001; P.A. 04-221
amended Subdiv. (4) to allow unlicensed person to treat toenails for cosmetic purposes only, effective June 8, 2004;
P.A. 05-272 amended Subdiv. (5)(A) by removing provision re equivalency examination prepared by Commissioner of
Education and conducted by Department of Public Health.
Sec. 20-252. Licenses. Examinations. No person shall engage in the occupation
of registered hairdresser and cosmetician without having obtained a license from the
department. Persons desiring such licenses shall apply in writing on forms furnished by
the department. No license shall be issued, except a renewal of a license, to a registered
hairdresser and cosmetician unless the applicant has shown to the satisfaction of the
department that the applicant has complied with the laws and the regulations administered or adopted by the department. No applicant shall be licensed as a registered hairdresser and cosmetician, except by renewal of a license, until the applicant has made
written application to the department, setting forth by affidavit that the applicant has
successfully completed the eighth grade and that the applicant has completed a course
of not less than fifteen hundred hours of study in a school approved in accordance with
the provisions of this chapter, in a school teaching hairdressing and cosmetology under
the supervision of the State Board of Education, or, if trained outside of Connecticut,
in a school teaching hairdressing and cosmetology whose requirements are equivalent
to those of a Connecticut school and until the applicant has passed a written examination
satisfactory to the department. Examinations required for licensure under this chapter
shall be prescribed by the department with the advice and assistance of the board. The
department shall establish a passing score for examinations with the advice and assistance of the board which shall be the same as the passing score established in section
20-236.
(1949 Rev., S. 4590, 4591; 1957, P.A. 215; February, 1965, P.A. 363, S. 2; 1969, P.A. 822, S. 2, 3; 1971, P.A. 468, S.
2; 1972, P.A. 127, S. 47; P.A. 77-614, S. 302, 323, 610; P.A. 80-484, S. 112, 176; P.A. 81-471, S. 56, 71; P.A. 84-173, S.
2; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 98-43, S. 4; P.A. 01-195, S. 165, 181; P.A. 04-221, S. 15; P.A.
05-272, S. 12.)
History: 1965 act added twenty-one-year and tenth-grade requirements and three-year assistant's license alternative
and raised training and experience alternative from three years; 1969 act amended Subsec. (a) to add education requirements
and amended Subsec. (c) to allow equivalency examination as alternative to tenth grade education; 1971 act deleted practical
and oral segment of examination in Subsecs. (a) and (c); 1972 act reduced minimum age requirement in Subsec. (c) from
twenty-one to eighteen, reflecting changed age of majority; P.A. 77-614 replaced secretary of the state board of education
with commissioner of education and department of health with department of health services, effective January 1, 1979;
P.A. 80-484 deleted references to assistant hairdresser and cosmetician and instructor categories, including Subsecs. (b)
and (d) which had contained licensing requirements for those categories, deleted requirement that applicants be "of good
moral character", redesignated remaining Subsecs. (a), (c) and (e) as (1), (2) and (3), deleted minimum age requirements
in Subsecs. (1) and (2) and added provisions in Subsec. (2) re health services department's responsibility for administering
exams and establishing passing scores; P.A. 81-471 amended section to eliminate reference to operator's license and
qualifications, to delete the requirement that equivalency examinations be given concurrently with licensure examinations,
to eliminate requirement of training under the personal supervision of a registered hairdresser and cosmetician and to insert
a specific requirement of not less than fifteen hundred hours of study in an approved school and reduce the entry level
educational requirement from tenth grade to ninth grade; P.A. 84-173 required examinations for licensure to be prescribed
by the department with the advice and assistance of the board and required the board's advice and assistance rather than
consent in establishing a passing score; P.A. 93-381 replaced department of health services with department of public
health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health
and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 98-43 changed
education requirement from ninth grade to eighth grade; P.A. 01-195 made technical changes, effective July 11, 2001;
P.A. 04-221 deleted requirements that department conduct equivalency and licensure examinations, and added provision
re training at school outside state; P.A. 05-272 removed provision re equivalency examination prepared by Commissioner
of Education.