698                                Laws of Maryland                       [Ch. 183

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That new Sections 529(p) and (q) be and they are hereby added to
Article 43 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1971 Replacement
Volume), title "Health," subtitle "Cosmetologists," to follow immedi-
ately after Section 529(o) thereof; that Sections 529(a) and 532(a),
(b), and (c) and Sections 549(a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f) and (g) be
and they are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments; that
Section 532(d) be repealed and that new Section 532(d) be enacted
in lieu thereof, to stand in the place of the Section repealed, and that
new Section 532(e) be added to follow immediately after Section
532 (d) thereof, all of the same article, title, and subtitle, and to read
as follows:

529.

(a) The term "beauty culture" includes any and all work done
for compensation by any person which work is generally and usually
performed by so-called hairdressers, cosmetologists, cosmetologists
aides, cosmeticians, beauticians or beauty culturists and demonstra-
tors of beauty preparations or equipment, and however denominated
in so-called hairdressing and beauty shops ordinarily patronized by
women, which work is for the embellishment, cleanliness and beautifi-
cation of women's hair, such as arranging, dressing, curling, waving,
permanent waving, cleansing, cutting, singeing, arching of eyebrows,
dyeing of eyebrows and eyelashes, bleaching, coloring, or similar
work thereon and thereabout, and the removal of superfluous hair,
and the massaging, cleansing, stimulating, exercising, or similar
work upon the scalp, face, arms or hands, by the use of mechanical
or electrical apparatus or appliances or cosmetics, preparations,
tonics, antiseptics, creams or lotions or by any other means, and of
manicuring the nails of either sex, which enumerated practices shall
be inclusive of the term beauty culture but not in limitation thereof.

(p) The term "cosmetologist-aide" is defined as any person AT
LEAST 16 YEARS OF AGE who UNDER THE SUPERVISION
OF A BEAUTY SHOP MANAGER IN A REGISTERED BEAUTY
SALON, for compensation engages in limited practices of beauty
culture, namely RESTRICTED TO, shampooing, removing THE
REMOVAL OF nets, rollers, clips, pins, rinsing permanent wave
solutions, neutralizing, removing NEUTRALIZERS, STABI-
LIZERS, HAIR RELAXERS waving rods, removing hair color
TINTS OR BLEACHES, sterilizing of equipment and like activities-;
but shall not include the application of hair relaxers or any chemicals.

(q) The term "temporary license" is defined as a certificate which
allows a person qualified to take the cosmetology examination to
practice cosmetology while awaiting a scheduled examination date
and is valid only until the examination result is received.

532.

(a) Certificate as an operator.—No person shall be permitted by
the Board to take an examination to receive a certificate as an opera-
tor unless such person shall be at least seventeen years of age, have
an eighth grade education, or its equivalent, and has been registered
as a student and has had training, as hereinafter provided in this
subtitle, in a beauty school duly registered by the Board of at least