PRINTER'S NO. 71
No. 61 Session of 1993
INTRODUCED BY NICKOL, PLATTS, ULIANA, TOMLINSON, B. SMITH,
FARGO, CLARK, MAITLAND AND HERMAN, JANUARY 27, 1993
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON RULES, JANUARY 27, 1993
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 June 30, 1984 (P.L.494, No.101), is amended to read:
15 Section 12. (a) (1) Except for one barber, barber shops
16 which shall be under the immediate supervision of a licensed
17 barber, who has been a licensed barber for one year, all other
18 barber shops shall at all times be under the immediate
19 supervision of a manager-barber. In no barber shop shall there
20 be more than one student for each barber-teacher in the shop.
21 All barber schools shall keep prominently displayed at every
1 entrance to said school a sign reading "Barber School." Any
2 copartnership, corporation, or person desiring to operate or
3 conduct a barber shop or barber school, shall first secure from
4 the board a license to do so, and shall keep the same
5 prominently displayed. Both the fee for registration of each
6 barber school and the annual renewal fee shall be determined by
7 regulation. The board may pass upon the qualifications,
8 appointments, and course of study in said school, which shall be
9 not less than one thousand two hundred fifty (1250) hours and
10 not less than nine months. All barber schools shall have not
11 less than one licensed teacher for every twenty students, and in
12 no case less than one full-time teacher, who shall be in
13 attendance at all times during the hours the school is open for
14 instruction. This section does not prohibit an owner who is a
15 cosmetologist from employing a barber without the requirement
16 that a manager-barber also be employed.
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18 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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