NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 577

HOUSE BILL 453

 

 

AN ACT AMENDING AND REWRITING CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF CHAPTER 86 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES OF NORTH CAROLINA ENTITLED "BARBERS".

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Section 86‑3 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by striking out the words "six months" in line one of Subsection (3) and inserting in lieu thereof the words "eight months".

Sec. 2.  Section 86‑12 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by striking out the words "two years" in line three and inserting in lieu thereof the words "five years".

Sec. 3.  Section 86‑17 of the General Statues is hereby amended by striking out the period at the end of the first sentence in Subsection (a)(10) and adding the following:

"or any other product or solution that the Board may approve."

Section 86‑17 of the General Statutes is further amended by adding at the end of Subsection (b) the following:

"The Board shall have the right to make additional rules and regulations governing barbers and barber shops for the proper administration and enforcement of this Act, provided that no such additional rules and regulations shall be in effect until such rules and regulations shall have been furnished to each barber shop within the State."

Sec. 4.  Section 86‑20 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by adding a new subsection at the end of said Section to be designated as Subsection 9 and to read as follows:

"The violation of the provisions of G.S. 86‑25 or the rules and regulations pertaining to barber schools as provided for in G.S. 86‑25."

Sec. 5.  Section 86‑25 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by striking out all of Subsection (1) and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

"(1)      Provide a course of instruction of at least eight (8) months for each student, said course of instruction and training may be completed within a period of one thousand, five hundred and twenty‑eight (1,528) hours. Attendance on each working day to consist of not less than eight (8) hours a day for five (5) days a week and four (4) hours a day one day a week."

Section 86‑25 of the General Statutes is further amended by adding at the end of Subsection (2) the following:

"Any person desiring to take an instructor's examination must make application to the Board for examination to take instructor's examination on forms to be furnished by the Board and pay the instructor's examination fee and the instructor's examination fee shall be twenty-five dollars ($25.00) and each person who passes the instructor's examination shall be issued a Certificate of Registration as a registered instructor by paying the issuance fee of ten dollars ($10.00), and said instructor's certificate shall be renewed as of the thirtieth day of June of each and every year. All persons who have heretofore passed the instructor's examination in this State shall be issued an instructor's Certificate of Registration without examination by paying the required issuance fee provided they make application and pay the required fee on or before September 30, 1961. Any person whose instructor's certificate has expired for a period of three years or more shall be required to take and pass the instructor's examination before such certificate can be renewed."

Section 86‑25 of the General Statutes is further amended by rewriting Subsection (7) to read as follows:

"(7)      Each barber school shall have a manager who will be responsible for the overall operation of the said school. The manager must have passed an instructor's examination conducted by the Board as provided by this Section and had at least two or more years of experience as an instructor in an approved barber school."

Section 86‑25 is further amended by rewriting all of Subsection (9) to read as follows:

"(9)      The Board of Barber Examiners shall have the right to withdraw the approval of any barber school or college for the violation of any of the provisions of this law, or any of the rules and regulations prescribed by the Board, subject to the provisions of G.S. 86‑21 and Chapter 150 of the General Statutes."

Sec. 6.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 7.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of June, 1961.