HEALTH. 581

1935, ch. 282, sec. 397.

411. Requirements to Practice. After August 1, 1935, before any
person may practice or teach beauty culture or act as a demonstrator or
manage a beauty shop or enroll as a student in any school of beauty
culture or serve as an apprentice in a beauty shop, such person shall file
with the Board a written application for registration, accompanied by a
health certificate issued by a registered licensed physician of Maryland,
under oath, on a form which shall be prescribed and supplied by such
Board and shall deposit with the Board the registration fee, and except
as provided in Section 414, pass an examination as to fitness to practice
or teach beauty culture or to be a demonstrator or manage a beauty shop,
as hereinafter provided in this sub-title.

1935, ch. 282, sec. 398.

412. Eligibility Requirements for Examination, (a) No person shall
be permitted by the Board to take an examination to receive a certificate as
an operator unless such person shall be at least sixteen years of age and has
been registered as a student and has had training, as hereinafter provided
in this sub-title, in a beauty school duly registered by the Board of at least
1, 000 hours training, or serve as an apprentice in an approved beauty shop
for a period of not less than two years; provided, however, that the Board
may permit a person to take an examination without the prior studentship
herein required if such person shall establish, to the satisfaction of the
Board, that he or she has been an operator in the active practice of beauty
culture for at least twenty-four months within the five years next pre-
ceding June 1, 1935.

(b) No person shall be permitted to take an examination to act as a
demonstrator who shall not have had all the qualifications necessary to
become an operator.

(c) No person shall be permitted to take an examination to act as a
manager of a beauty shop unless such person shall be at least 18 years of
age and has had at least 18 months, experience as an operator in a beauty
shop or, in lieu of said 18 months experience, 1, 500 hours of training at a
registered school of beauty culture inclusive of the studies necessary to
become an operator, and 6 months experience as an operator.

(d) No person shall be permitted to take an examination for a certifi-
cate to teach beauty culture unless such person shall be at least 18 years
of age and has had at least two years experience as an operator in a beauty
shop or, in lieu of said two years experience, 2, 000 hours of training in a
duly registered school of beauty culture, inclusive of the studies necessary
to become an operator.

1935, ch. 282, sec. 399.

413. Manicuring. A certificate of registration limited to manicure the
nails only may be applied for and granted under all of the terms and
conditions of this sub-title, except that the examination therefor may be