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Nevada Revised Statutes Title 54. Professions, Occupations and Businesses § 644A.150. Applicability of chapter

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

1. The following persons are exempt from the provisions of this chapter:

(a) Except for those provisions relating to advanced estheticians, all persons authorized by the laws of this State to practice nursing, medicine, dentistry, osteopathic medicine, chiropractic, naprapathy or podiatry.

(b) Commissioned medical officers of the Armed Forces of the United States when engaged in the actual performance of their official duties, and attendants attached to a unit in a branch of the Armed Forces of the United States that provides medical services.

(c) Barbers, insofar as their usual and ordinary vocation and profession is concerned, when engaged in any of the following practices:

(1) Cleansing or singeing the hair of any person.

(2) Massaging, cleansing, stimulating, exercising or similar work upon the scalp, face or neck of any person, with the hands or with mechanical or electrical apparatus or appliances, or by the use of cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, tonics, lotions or creams.

(d) Retailers, at a retail establishment, insofar as their usual and ordinary vocation and profession is concerned, when engaged in the demonstration of cosmetics if:

(1) The demonstration is without charge to the person to whom the demonstration is given; and

(2) The retailer does not advertise or provide a service relating to the practice of cosmetology except cosmetics and fragrances.

(e) Photographers or their employees, insofar as their usual and ordinary vocation and profession is concerned, if the photographer or his or her employee does not advertise cosmetological services or the practice of makeup artistry and provides cosmetics without charge to the customer.

2. Any school of cosmetology conducted as part of the vocational rehabilitation training program of the Department of Corrections or the Caliente Youth Center:

(a) Is exempt from the requirements of paragraph (c) of subsection 2 of NRS 644A.740.

(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of NRS 644A.735, shall maintain a staff of at least one licensed instructor.

3. Any health care professional, as defined in NRS 453C.030, is exempt from the provisions of this chapter relating to advanced estheticians.

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