Text of Statute

Sections 4713.01 to 4713.21 of the Revised Code do not prohibit service in cases of emergency or domestic administration, without compensation. The following persons shall be exempt from the provisions of such sections:

(A) All persons authorized to practice medicine, surgery, dentistry, and nursing or any of its branches in this state;

(B) Commissioned surgical and medical officers of the United States army, navy, or marine hospital service when engaged in the actual performance of their official duties, and attendants attached to same;

(C) Barbers, insofar as their usual and ordinary vocation and profession is concerned;

(D) Funeral directors, embalmers, and apprentices licensed or registered under Chapter 4717. of the Revised Code;

(E) Persons who are engaged in the retail sale, cleaning, or beautification of wigs and postiches but who do not engage in any other act constituting the practice of cosmetology;

(F) Volunteers of hospitals, and homes as defined in section 3721.01 of the Revised Code, who render service to registered patients and inpatients who reside in such hospitals or homes. Such volunteers shall not use or work with any chemical products such as permanent wave, hair dye, or chemical hair relaxer, which without proper training would pose a health or safety problem to the patient.

(G) Nurses aides and other employees of hospitals and homes as defined in section 3721.01 of the Revised Code, who render cosmetology services to registered patients only as part of general patient care services and who do not charge patients directly on a fee for service basis;

(H) Cosmetic therapists who hold current, valid certificates to practice cosmetic therapy issued by the state medical board under section 4731.15 of the Revised Code;

(I) Photographers engaged in delivering a glamour photography service in a licensed salon, so long as the person advertising and operating the glamour photography service is properly licensed under this chapter by the state board of cosmetology.

HISTORY: GC § 1082-15; 115 v 329, § 15; Bureau of Code Revision, 10-1-53; 136 v S 262 (Eff 6-18-76); 137 v S 352 (Eff 8-1-78); 142 v H 331 (Eff 6-29-88); 144 v H 322 (Eff 3-2-92); 145 v S 143 (Eff 8-10-94); 147 v H 606. Eff 3-9-99.