36-15-45. Required period of apprenticeship--Transfer to another salon--Break in apprenticeship period--Promulgation of rules. A licensed apprentice in cosmetology shall receive education in the practice of cosmetology as required by this chapter in the same cosmetology salon for fifteen hundred consecutive hours. A licensed apprentice in esthetics shall receive education in the practice of esthetics as required by this chapter for six hundred consecutive hours. A licensed apprentice in nail technology shall receive education in the practice of nail technology as required by this chapter for four hundred consecutive hours in the same cosmetology salon or nail salon. The commission may permit an apprentice to transfer to another cosmetology, esthetics, or nail salon, as applicable, for completion of the apprenticeship if the apprentice applies for the transfer in writing to the commission and shows good cause for the request. The commission may permit a break in the consecutive period of the apprenticeship if the apprentice applies for the break in writing to the commission and shows good cause for the request. e request. The commission may permit a break in the consecutive period of the apprenticeship if the apprentice applies for the break in writing to the commission and shows good cause for the request. The commission shall define good cause by rules promulgated pursuant to chapter 1-26. Source: SDC 1939, §27.1507 (6) as enacted by SL 1957, ch 118, §1; SL 1965, ch 127, §2; SL 1972, ch 206, §35; SL 1997, ch 218, §17; SL 2003, ch 202, §51; SL 2018, ch 232, §6, eff. Jan. 1, 2019; SL 2021, ch 176, § 4.
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