SENATE AMENDED
PRIOR PRINTER'S NOS. 436, 1433, 2776 PRINTER'S NO. 3641
No. 416 Session of 1995
INTRODUCED BY NICKOL, WAUGH, ROBERTS, PLATTS, STISH, RAYMOND,
TRELLO, STETLER, YOUNGBLOOD, BATTISTO, L. I. COHEN,
E. Z. TAYLOR, MAITLAND, SAYLOR, WASHINGTON, MERRY, CIVERA AND
MILLER, JANUARY 31, 1995
AS AMENDED ON THIRD CONSIDERATION, IN SENATE, JUNE 3, 1996
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of June 19, 1931 (P.L.589, No.202), entitled,
2 as amended, "An act to promote the public health and safety,
3 by providing for the examination and licensure of those who
4 desire to engage in the profession of barbering; regulating
5 barber shops and barber schools, and students therein;
6 regulating compensation for service rendered; conferring
7 certain powers and duties on the Department of State; and
8 providing penalties," further providing for the supervision
9 of shops.
10 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
11 hereby enacts as follows:
12 Section 1. Section 12(a)(1) of the act of June 19, 1931
13 (P.L.589, No.202), referred to as the Barbers' License Law,
14 amended December 7, 1994 (P.L.855, No.123), is amended to read:
15 Section 12. (a) (1) Except for shops licensed under
16 section 13(b) and [one barber] for one-barber shops, [barber
17 shops] which shall be under the immediate supervision of a
18 licensed barber, [who has been a licensed barber for one year,] <--
19 all other barber shops shall at all times be under the immediate
20 supervision of a manager-barber. In [no barber shop shall there <--
1 be more than one student] for each barber-teacher or manager- <--
2 barber in the shop BARBER SHOPS WHERE STUDENTS ARE SUPERVISED BY <--
3 A MANAGER-BARBER THERE SHALL BE NO MORE THAN ONE STUDENT PER
4 BARBER SHOP. IN BARBER SHOPS WHERE STUDENTS ARE SUPERVISED BY A
5 BARBER-TEACHER THERE SHALL BE NO MORE THAN ONE STUDENT PER
6 BARBER-TEACHER. In no case shall there be more than three TWO <--
7 students per barber shop. All barber schools shall keep
8 prominently displayed at every entrance to said school a sign
9 reading "Barber School." Any copartnership, corporation, or
10 person desiring to operate or conduct a barber shop or barber
11 school, shall first secure from the board a license to do so,
12 and shall keep the same prominently displayed. Both the fee for
13 registration of each barber school and the annual renewal fee
14 shall be determined by regulation. The board may pass upon the
15 qualifications, appointments, and course of study in said
16 school, which shall be not less than one thousand two hundred
17 fifty (1250) hours and not less than nine months. All barber
18 schools shall have not less than one licensed teacher for every
19 twenty students, and in no case less than one full-time teacher,
20 who shall be in attendance at all times during the hours the
21 school is open for instruction. This section does not prohibit
22 an owner who is a cosmetologist from employing a barber without
23 the requirement that a manager-barber also be employed.
24 * * *
25 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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