Georgia Code
Chapter 10 - Barbers and Cosmetologists
§ 43-10-8. Certificate of Registration Required

History. Ga. L. 1963, p. 45, § 3; Ga. L. 1979, p. 1327, § 1; Ga. L. 1983, p. 1219, § 3; Ga. L. 1985, p. 1057, §§ 5, 6; Ga. L. 1986, p. 10, § 43; Ga. L. 2000, p. 814, § 1; Ga. L. 2000, p. 1706, § 19; Ga. L. 2006, p. 904, § 4/SB 145; Ga. L. 2011, p. 752, § 43/HB 142; Ga. L. 2015, p. 1287, § 2/HB 314; Ga. L. 2020, p. 909, § 3/HB 914.
The 2015 amendment, effective July 1, 2015, substituted “individual” for “person” throughout this Code section; inserted “barbering or” near the beginning of subsection (a); in subsection (b), in the first sentence, deleted “or hair designer” following “master cosmetologist”, substituted “a certificate of registration as a master cosmetologist which certifies that the holder thereof shall” for “the certificate of registration for such. Such person shall”, and substituted “paragraph (11)” for “paragraph (4)”, and in the second sentence, substituted “held” for “holds” near the beginning and substituted “as a master cosmetologist” for “at the master cosmetologist level as defined in paragraph (8) of Code Section 43-10-1” at the end; substituted the present provisions of subsection (c) for the former provisions, which read: “Reserved.”; in subsection (d), substituted “as a hair designer” for “at the hair design level” near the middle and substituted “paragraph (9)” for “paragraph (7)” near the end; in subsection (e), substituted “as an esthetician” for “at the esthetician” near the middle and substituted “paragraph (8)” for “paragraph (5)” near the end; in subsection (f), deleted the paragraph (f)(1) designation, substituted “as a nail technician” for “at the nail technician” near the middle, substituted “paragraph (12)” for “paragraph (9)” near the end and deleted former paragraph (f)(2), which read: “(2) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, any person who has actively engaged in the practice of cosmetology, hair design, esthetics, or nail care on a military installation in Georgia for three years prior to July 1, 1985, shall be eligible to receive a certificate of registration at the cosmetology, hair design, esthetics, or nail care level upon proper proof of experience, application, and appropriate fee being submitted to the board on or before September 1, 1985.”; added present subsection (g); redesignated former subsections (g) and (h) as present subsections (h) and (i); in subsection (h), in the first sentence, substituted “barber shop,” for “hair design salon,” near the beginning and substituted “esthetics, school of nail care, or school of barbering” for “esthetics, or school of nail care” near the middle and substituted “beauty salon, barber shop, school of cosmetology, school of hair design, school of esthetics, school of nail care, or school of barbering” for “salon, or school” in the last sentence; and, in subsection (i), inserted “master cosmetologist,” “nail technician, esthetician, master barber, barber II,” “beauty salon, barber shop,” and “, or school of barbering” and deleted “or” preceding “school of nail care”.
The 2020 amendment, effective January 1, 2021, deleted “or any spouse of a current or discharged member of the military” preceding “may apply” in the beginning of paragraph (g)(1) and substituted “used in this subsection” for “used in this paragraph” in paragraph (g)(2).
Administrative rules and regulations.
License requirements, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Georgia State Board of Cosmetology, Chapter 130-2.

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