PART III. ELECTROLOGISTS

§3071. License of electrologists; qualifications; examinations; issuance of license; waiver

            A. No person shall engage or attempt to engage in the practice of electrology in this state who does not hold a valid license issued by the board in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter.

            B.(1) The board shall license as an electrologist and issue an appropriate certificate to any person who files with it a verified application therefor, accompanied by the application fee required by this Part, together with evidence, verified by oath and satisfactory to the board, that he meets all of the following qualifications:

            (a) He is at least eighteen years of age.

            (b) He is of good moral character.

            (c) He is free of any infectious disease.

            (e) He has graduated from an accredited high school.

            (f) He has, after high school graduation, successfully completed a course in practical training in electrolysis in a school of electrology that maintains the standards established and approved by the board or has completed a like number of hours in the subject areas specified in an apprenticeship program approved by the board at the time of certification.

            (g) He has passed an examination given and graded by the board, which shall consist of a written examination and a practical demonstration of abilities.

            (h) He has paid any other fees required by this Chapter.

            (2) Each applicant shall provide his subject for the practical demonstration. Within ten days after each examination, the official in charge shall deliver the question-and-answer papers to the board. The board shall examine and rate the answers and shall transmit an official report to each applicant for license stating the rating of the candidate in each subject and whether or not the board approves the candidate for a license. If a candidate fails one or more parts of an examination, he may take the parts in which he has failed in a subsequent examination upon payment of a fifteen-dollar examination fee. If after two attempts the examination is not satisfactorily completed, the candidate thereafter shall be required to repeat and take the entire examination within one year of the date of the original examination.

            (3) Each such school of electrology shall include at least four hundred fifty hours of clinical experience, one hundred fifty hours of lectures on insertion techniques, modalities, healing, regrowth problems, and office management.

            C. Repealed by Acts 1999, No. 530, §2, eff. Aug. 1, 1999.

            D. After investigation of the applicant and other evidence submitted, the board shall notify each applicant that the application and evidence submitted for consideration is satisfactory and accepted, or unsatisfactory and rejected. If an application is rejected, the notice shall state the reasons for the rejection.

            E. The examination shall be given four times each year at such time and place and under such supervision as the board determines, and specifically at such other times as in the opinion of the board the number of applicants warrants. The board shall designate the date, time, and place of examination and shall give public notice thereof and, in addition, shall notify each person who has made application for examination to the board.

            F.(1) In addition to the minimum requirements and standards for licensure established by the board, any person licensed or qualified to practice as an electrologist in any other state applying to practice as an electrologist in Louisiana shall be required to submit adequate and sufficient proof of six hundred hours of recognized and approved educational training in the study of electrology and to have successfully achieved a minimum test score on the appropriate board exam.

            (2) Repealed by Acts 2001, No. 792, §2.

            (3) When an applicant fails to achieve the minimum test score on the board exam on his first attempt, he may take the exam again, pursuant to this Chapter.

            (4) An applicant shall pass all parts of the board examination within two years of his first examination date. Failure to achieve such minimum test score within such time period shall require the applicant to successfully complete six hundred hours of educational training in the study of electrology in a school licensed or approved by the board.

            G. The board may license any person as an electrologist technician who has successfully completed the provisions of R.S. 37:3063(C)(2) and passes the appropriate written and practical examinations. The electrologist technician must work under the direct supervision of a licensed electrologist or licensed electrologist instructor and provide the name of the supervising electrologist to the board. A licensed electrologist technician may upgrade his license to that of an electrologist by completing the additional theory and practical hours in school or an electrologist apprenticeship program and by passing the appropriate board examination.

            Added by Acts 1979, No. 748, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1980. Amended by Acts 1983, No. 605, §1; Acts 1984, No. 942, §1; Acts 1985, No. 128, §1; Acts 1989, No. 459, §1; Acts 1993, No. 819, §1; Acts 1999, No. 530, §2, eff. Aug. 1, 1999; Acts 2001, No. 792, §§1 and 2; Acts 2022, No. 271, §2.