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Arkansas Code Title 17. Professions, Occupations, and Businesses § 17-26-410. Instructor qualifications

Current as of March 28, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a)(1)(A) A person employed in a school to instruct students in the school shall be licensed as an instructor in the field in which he or she specializes.

(B) A licensed instructor in good standing is not required to renew his or her specialty license.

(2) A licensed instructor shall:

(A) Be twenty-one (21) years of age or older and have had six hundred (600) hours of teacher training in a school of cosmetology;

(B) Have passed an instructor's written examination given by the Department of Health, a practical examination administered by the school, and have received an instructor's license; and

(C) Have received not less than eight (8) hours of additional training in an instructor's training seminar or continuing education course certified by the department.

(b) A licensed instructor shall not teach outside the profession in which the license to practice allows.

(c) A cosmetology school shall offer an education in cosmetology regardless of whether the curriculum includes a specialty course.

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