Chapter 130-4 DEALING WITH ESTABLISHMENT
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All facilities
(salons/shops or schools) wherein cosmetology services are practiced or taught
within the State of Georgia must provide suitable quarters equipped to give
adequate services. All facilities are subject to inspection by any Board member
or inspector, who shall have the power and right to enter into and make
reasonable inspection of any facility during regular business hours; and
refusal of or failure to permit or cooperate with such reasonable inspection
shall subject an individual and/or a facility holding a certificate of
registration issued by the Board to sanctions, including revocation of the
certificate of registration.
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A beauty facility shall have a permanent
and definite location in which the cosmetology professions of master
cosmetologist, hair designer, nail technician, and/or esthetician, are
practiced in accordance with the laws and rules of the Georgia State Board of
Cosmetology. All mobile units, including kiosks, carts, mobile homes, trailers,
and motor homes, shall not be licensed as salons/shops unless they meet all
requirements of the Board and are permanently anchored on the ground with
wheels detached. |
Space used for a cosmetology facility must be separated by
tight, ceiling high partitions from residence rooms and must have separate
restrooms. The cosmetology facility shall have a separate outside entrance.
Separate space must be provided for a cosmetology facility. The use of any such
space for sleeping, dining or any other domestic purpose is
prohibited.
Space used for a cosmetology facility must be separated by
tight, ceiling high partitions from other commercial
facilities.
Walls, ceiling, floors, furniture and equipment must be kept
free from excessive dust, dirt and debris. All equipment must be kept in good
and safe working condition.
Each facility must have proper toilet and plumbing facilities
and an adequate supply of hot and cold running water in accordance with
recognized health standards.
No cosmetology salon/shop shall have in training more than one
apprentice for each person licensed at the master cosmetologist, hair designer
esthetician or nail technician level. More than one apprentice is permissible
if affirmatively shown to the Georgia State Board of Cosmetology that the
apprentice will be denied the opportunity of learning the profession of
cosmetology, hair design, esthetics, or nail technology provided that the
burden of proof shall be upon the person or persons seeking to show that the
opportunity to learn the profession has been denied.
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Each apprentice shall be trained and
supervised by one master cosmetologist as shown on the apprentice's
registration filed with the Board by the salon/shop owner/manager. |
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The salon/shop owner/manager may
temporarily designate a qualified master to train and supervise the apprentice
in the absence of the master licensee who is registered with the Board as being
the master responsible for training the apprentice. The temporarily designated
master shall have at least 36 months experience and shall have held a
certificate of a master for at least 36 months as required by O.C.G.A. § 43-10-14(a).
The burden of proof for establishing that circumstances exist which require
assigning an apprentice to another licensed and qualified master on a temporary
basis shall be deemed to have been met if the training master is absent from
the salon/shop for a limited duration of time. Such time periods include, but
are not limited to, illness, jury duty, military leave, absences for personal
business or travel, vacation, temporary leave of absence from work, or a leave
under the federal "Family and Medical Leave Act". |
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Any apprentice training hours obtained at
a location other than the salon/shop registered with the Board as the
apprentice's training salon/shop shall not be counted toward the number of
hours required for examination and licensing. |
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A person holding a current Georgia Master
Barber License may be employed in a cosmetology salon/shop without salon/shop
having a barber shop license. |
| (2) |
A
licensed master barber shall not train an apprentice barber in a cosmetology
salon/shop. |
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Each salon/shop
shall post in an open area the current salon/shop license issued to them by the
Georgia State Board of Cosmetology, or a current copy of the online
verification of licensure. |
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Each
person employed in the salon/shop shall post, in an open area, the current
license/permit issued to them by the Georgia State Board of Cosmetology or the
Georgia State Board of Barbers, or a current copy of the online verification of
licensure. |
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Salons/Shops shall
have posted in an open area at all times a copy of the most recent inspection
report. |
| (4) |
Salons/Shops shall
comply with rules for sanitation, health and disinfectants in Chapter 130-5 of
the Rules of Georgia State Board of Cosmetology. |
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Sanitary rules and regulations governing
salons or shops in the State of Georgia shall be posted in an open area in the
salon/shop so as to be easily read by customers. |
