MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                                 1899

otherwise, shall have the meaning ascribed to them in
this section:

(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, WIG STYLISTS NOT LICENSED AS BARBERS,
beauticians or beauty culturists and demonstrators 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 beautification 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.

532.

(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 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, or by
another state having substantially equivalent or more
stringent standards for registration than those imposed
by § 536 of this article, and allowing persons trained in
Maryland beauty schools to take their State examination
after 1,500 hours training, or has served as an
apprentice in an approved beauty shop for a period of not
less than two years.

(b)    No person shall be permitted to receive a
demonstrator's license unless [certified operator
credentials] THE PERSON IS SUFFICIENTLY TRAINED IN THE
PARTICULAR CATEGORY OF BEAUTY CULTURE BEING DEMONSTRATED,
THE SUFFICIENCY OF SUCH TRAINING TO BE DETERMINED BY
STANDARDS AS PROVIDED IN THIS SUBTITLE, AND UNLESS
CREDENTIALS CERTIFYING SUCH TRAINING are presented along
with an application for the license to this Board.

(c)    No person who has obtained a license as an