Text of Statute

(A) No person shall do any of the following:

(1) Conduct or operate a nail salon, beauty salon, esthetics salon, or school of cosmetology without a license;

(2) Practice cosmetology for pay, free, or otherwise, either as a cosmetologist, managing cosmetologist, cosmetology instructor, manicurist, managing manicurist, manicurist instructor, esthetician, managing esthetician, or esthetics instructor, without a license;

(3) Practice natural hair styling for pay, free, or otherwise, without a license;

(4) Employ as a cosmetologist, managing cosmetologist, cosmetologist instructor, except as provided in division (C) of section 4713.15 of the Revised Code, manicurist, managing manicurist, manicurist instructor, esthetician, managing esthetician, or esthetics instructor, any person without a license;

(5) Aid or abet any person:

(a) Violating sections 4713.01 to 4713.21 of the Revised Code;

(b) Obtaining a license fraudulently;

(c) Falsely pretending to be licensed;

(d) Violating any of the sanitary rules for the regulation of the practice of cosmetology.

(6) Engage in the practice of massage in a beauty salon or nail salon for pay, free, or otherwise unless the person holds a current, valid certificate issued by the state medical board pursuant to section 4731.15 of the Revised Code;

(7) Engage in the advertisement or operation of a glamour photography service unless properly licensed under this chapter by the state board of cosmetology.

(B) Sections 4713.01 to 4713.21 of the Revised Code do not prohibit any student in a licensed school of cosmetology in this state from engaging in that school, as a student, in work connected with any branch of cosmetology taught in the school.

HISTORY: GC § 1082-2; 115 v 323, § 2; 123 v 795; Bureau of Code Revision, 10-1-53; 131 v 1187 (Eff 10-15-65); 136 v S 262 (Eff 6-18-76); 140 v H 289 (Eff 11-1-84); 143 v H 792 (Eff 7-24-90); 143 v H 737 (Eff 4-11-91); 144 v H 322 (Eff 3-2-92); 145 v S 143 (Eff 8-10-94); 148 v H 283. Eff 9-29-99.

The effective date is set by section 162 of HB 283.