Georgia Code
Chapter 10 - Barbers and Cosmetologists
§ 43-10-10. Display of Certificate of Registration; Renewal; Reinstatement; Continuing Education Requirements; Exemptions

Certificate holders who claim an exemption from the continuing education requirement on the basis of paragraph (2) of this subsection shall provide a sworn statement setting out the facts supporting such exemption.
History. Ga. L. 1963, p. 45, § 13; Ga. L. 1979, p. 1327, § 9; Ga. L. 1985, p. 1057, § 8; Ga. L. 2000, p. 814, § 1; Ga. L. 2000, p. 1706, § 19; Ga. L. 2001, Ex. Sess., p. 321, § 2; Ga. L. 2006, p. 904, § 6/SB 145; Ga. L. 2008, p. 335, § 7/SB 435; Ga. L. 2015, p. 1287, § 2/HB 314.
The 2015 amendment, effective July 1, 2015, in subsection (a), substituted “beauty shop, beauty salon, or barber shop” for “shop” in the first sentence, substituted “for a period of up to four years as approved by the division director” for “biennially” in the second sentence, and, in the fifth sentence, substituted “any occupation” for “the occupation of cosmetology”; rewrote subsections (b) and (c); in the introductory language of subsection (d), substituted “The board may require by rules and regulations that the remaining one to two hours of” for “The remaining two hours of”; deleted former subsection (i), which read “For the first renewal period during which the continuing education requirement will be enforced, the board shall allow credit for continuing education hours which were board approved or which did not require prior approval by the board received between March 31, 2000, and January 1, 2002, for master cosmetologists and between August 31, 1999, and January 1, 2002, for nail technicians and estheticians. Thereafter, no excess hours from one renewal period shall be authorized to be credited toward the continuing education requirement for another renewal period.”; and redesignated former subsection (j) as present subsection (i).

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