(A) Each applicant for an examination shall make application on board-approved forms. The application must be accompanied by the required examination fee. (B) The board shall conduct examinations of applicants for licenses to practice as cosmetologists, estheticians, or nail technicians not less than three times each year, at times and places as the board may determine. The examination of applicants for any license under this chapter must be conducted pursuant to regulations promulgated by the board and shall include both practical demonstrations and written tests on subjects the board determines to be necessary. Examinations must be consistent with the prescribed curriculum and the practical and theoretical requirements of the profession of cosmetology as prescribed in this chapter. HISTORY: 1998 Act No. 427, Section 1; 2000 Act No. 222, Section 11.
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