This chapter shall not repeal any provisions of the public health laws, the state sanitary code, or any local acts, or general acts of local application, or municipal ordinances, where the provisions thereof have standards, qualifications, and requirements for the practice of barbering, the operation of barbershops or barber colleges equal to or higher than those provided herein, and such laws, codes, acts, or ordinances shall remain in their entirety in full force and effect.
Ala. Code § 34-5-14 (1975)