La. Admin. Code tit. 46 § XXXV-1401

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 11, November 20, 2024

Section XXXV-1401 - Licensure of Electrologist Technician

A. The board shall license and issue an appropriate certificate to any person who files a verified application, accompanied by the appropriate application fee, with evidence, verified under oath and satisfactory to the board, that he is at least 18 years of age, of good moral character, has graduated from an accredited high school or equivalent (has submitted proof of G.E.D.), and has successfully completed a course in practical training of electrolysis in a school of electrology which maintains the standards established and approved by the board or that he 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 is free of infectious disease, has successfully completed the written and practical test, and is current with all fees owed to the board, and has completed at least 110 hours of clinical experience, 90 hours of lectures on insertion techniques, modalities, healing, regrowth problems, and office management.

B. Application fee for an electrologist technician shall be the same as provided in the R.S. 37:3072.A(1).

C. 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.

D. If a student fails one or more parts of an examination, the student may take the parts in which he has failed in a subsequent examination upon payment of a $15 examination fee. If, after two attempts, the examination is not satisfactorily completed, the student thereafter shall be required to repeat and take the entire examination within one year of the date of the original examination.

La. Admin. Code tit. 46, § XXXV-1401

Promulgated by the Department of Health and Hospitals, Board of Electrolysis Examiners, LR 27:195 (February 2001).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 37:3051.