Georgia Code
Chapter 10 - Barbers and Cosmetologists
§ 43-10-6. Rules and Regulations as to Sanitary Requirements; Instruction on Hiv and Aids; Inspections; Unsanitary Condition as Nuisance

History. Ga. L. 1963, p. 45, § 5; Ga. L. 1967, p. 727, § 1; Ga. L. 1979, p. 1327, § 3; Ga. L. 1980, p. 1420, §§ 2, 3; Ga. L. 1985, p. 1057, § 4; Ga. L. 2000, p. 814, § 1; Ga. L. 2000, p. 1706, § 19; Ga. L. 2006, p. 904, § 3/SB 145; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 1-4/HB 228; Ga. L. 2010, p. 266, § 19/SB 195; Ga. L. 2011, p. 705, § 6-3/HB 214; Ga. L. 2015, p. 1287, § 2/HB 314; Ga. L. 2018, p. 996, § 4/SB 461; Ga. L. 2022, p. 352, § 43/HB 1428.
The 2015 amendment, effective July 1, 2015, inserted “barber shop”, “barber shops”, “and schools of barbering” and “and school of barbering” and made related punctuation changes throughout this Code section; in subsection (a), deleted “and” following “hair design,” near the middle of the first and next-to-last sentences, in the next-to-last sentence, inserted “beauty” preceding “salon” and substituted “such business, so as to be easily read by customers thereof” for “his or her business, so as to be easily read by his or her customers”, and added the last sentence; substituted “individuals issued certificates of registration” for “persons licensed” in subsection (b); and, in subsections (c) and (d), inserted “beauty” preceding “salon” and inserted “of cosmetology, school of hair design, school of esthetics, school of nail care, and school of barbering”.
The 2018 amendment, effective July 1, 2018, in subsection (a), in the first sentence, deleted “subject to the approval of the Department of Public Health,” following “schools of barbering”, in the middle and added the proviso at the end, and, in the second sentence, substituted “make its” for “make the” near the beginning; substituted “licenses” for “certificates of registration” in the middle of subsection (b); in subsection (c), inserted “investigator or” near the beginning, deleted “or” following “barber shop,” near the middle, substituted “nail care, or” for “nail care, and” in the middle, and inserted “; during hours advertised by a shop, salon, or school as being open; and during hours a shop, salon, or school is open as indicated by the presence of patrons” near the end; and substituted “barber shop, school” for “barber shop or school” near the beginning of subsection (d).
The 2022 amendment, effective May 2, 2022, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, substituted “human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)” for “Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome” in subsection (b).
Law reviews.
For article on the 2011 amendment of this Code section, see 28 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 147 (2011).
Administrative rules and regulations.
Sanitation and health, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Georgia State Board of Cosmetology, Chapter 130-5.

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