Section 73-7-18 - [Effective Until 1/1/2025] Licensing of estheticians(1) The board shall admit to examination for an esthetician's license any person who has made application to the board in proper form, has paid the required fee, and who: (a) Is not less than seventeen (17) years of age;(b) Can read, write and speak English;(c) Has a high school education or its equivalent; and(d) Has successfully completed a course of training in esthetics of not less than six hundred (600) hours in an accredited school in which the practice of esthetics is taught, including not less than one hundred (100) hours of theory and five hundred (500) hours of skill practice. Any licensed esthetician wishing to acquire a cosmetology license may apply the six hundred (600) hours of esthetics training toward the requirements for a cosmetology license.
(2) Every person who has completed not less than three hundred fifty (350) hours of training in esthetics approved by the board in this or any other state prior to July 1, 1987, shall be registered with the board within a period not exceeding six (6) months after July 1, 1987, and shall be granted an esthetician's license by the board if such person presents satisfactory evidence to the board that he or she has fulfilled all the requirements to be admitted to examination except the training hours requirement.(3) Each application or filing made under this section shall include the social security number(s) of the applicant in accordance with Section 93-11-64, Mississippi Code of 1972.Laws, 1987, ch. 516, § 10; reenacted, Laws, 1991, ch. 553, § 14; Laws, 1993, ch. 596, § 13; reenacted, Laws, 1995, ch. 383, § 14; reenacted without change, Laws, 1997, ch. 513, § 14; Laws, 1997, ch. 588, § 34; reenacted without change, Laws, 2005, ch. 492, § 14; reenacted without change, Laws, 2010, ch. 487, § 14; reenacted without change, Laws, 2011, ch. 525, § 14, eff. 7/1/2011.Reenacted without change by Laws, 2021, ch. 470, HB 1312,§ 14, eff. 4/9/2021.Reenacted without change by Laws, 2013, ch. 523, HB 1164, 14, eff. 7/1/2013.This section is set out more than once due to postponed, multiple, or conflicting amendments.