PRINTER'S NO. 2836
No. 2229 Session of 1978
INTRODUCED BY WISE, HARPER, IRVIS, MANDERINO, REED, FLAHERTY,
DAVIES, GLEESON, J. L. WRIGHT JR., MEBUS, BROWN, HOEFFEL,
KUKOVICH, COLE, RHODES, ITKIN, HASKELL, MILANOVICH, COHEN,
O'DONNELL, SWEET, ZEARFOSS, LEVIN, HONAMAN, E. Z. TAYLOR,
PICCOLA, SCIRICA, COWELL, WILSON, M. H. GEORGE, GILLETTE,
KERNICK, POTT, RICHARDSON AND WHITE, APRIL 3, 1978
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, APRIL 3, 1978
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of May 3, 1933 (P.L.242, No.86), entitled, as
2 amended, "An act to promote the public health and safety by
3 providing for examination and registration of those who
4 desire to engage in the occupation of beauty culture;
5 defining beauty culture, and regulating beauty culture shops,
6 schools, students, apprentices, teachers, managers and
7 operators; conferring powers and duties upon the Commissioner
8 of Professional and Occupational Affairs in the Department of
9 State; providing for appeals to certain courts by applicants
10 and licensees; and providing penalties," providing for equal
11 rights between man and woman.
12 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
13 hereby enacts as follows:
14 Section 1. The definition of "Beauty Culture" in section 1,
15 act of May 3, 1933 (P.L.242, No.86), referred to as the Beauty
16 Culture Law, amended January 14, 1952 (P.L.2047, No.578), is
17 amended to read:
18 Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That--Definitions.--The
19 following words or phrases, unless the context clearly indicates
20 otherwise, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this
1 section:
2 "Beauty Culture" includes any or all work done for
3 compensation by any person, which work is generally and usually
4 performed by hairdressers, cosmetologists, cosmeticians,
5 beauticians or beauty culturists, and however denominated, which
6 work is for the embellishment, cleanliness and beautification of
7 the [women's] human hair, such as arranging, dressing, curling,
8 waving, permanent waving, cleansing, cutting, singeing,
9 bleaching, coloring, pressing, or similar work thereon and
10 thereabout, and the removal of superfluous hair, and the
11 massaging, cleansing, stimulating, manipulating, exercising, or
12 similar work upon the scalp, face, arms or hands, or the upper
13 part of the body, by the use of mechanical or electrical
14 apparatus or appliances or cosmetics, preparations, tonics,
15 antiseptics, creams or lotions, or by any other means, and of
16 manicuring the nails, which enumerated practices shall be
17 inclusive of the term beauty culture but not in limitation
18 thereof.
19 * * *
20 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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