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 52 STAT.] 75 TH C)NG., 3 1) SESS.--('H. 322 -JUNE 7, 1938 licensed by the District of Columbia to practice medicine, and employ and maintain a sufficient number of competent barber instructors registered as such, and shall possess apparatus and equipment sufficient for the proper and full teaching of all subjects of its curriculum, shall keep a daily record of the attendance of each student, shall maintain regular class and instruction hours, shall establish grades and hold examinations before issuance of diplomas, and shall require a school term of training of not less than one thousand hours within a period of not more than eight hours a working day, two years as apprentice for a complete course of barbering, comprising all or a majority of the practices of cosmetology, as provided by this Act, and to include sanitation, sterilization, and the use of antiseptics, cosmetics, and electrical appliances consistent with the practical and theoretical requirements as applicable to barbering or any practice thereof. In no case shall there be less than one registered barber instructor to every ten students. All barber school instructors must be qualified registered barbers, excepting licensed physicians. SEC. 14. (a) It shall be unlawful- (1) To engage in the practice of barbering in the District of Colum- bia without a valid certificate as a registered barber, except that a registered barber apprentice may engage in the practice of barbering under the immediate personal supervision of a registered barber. (2) To engage in the practice of barbering while knowingly afflicted with an infectious or communicable disease. (3) To employ any person to engage in the practice of barbering except registered barbers and apprentices. (4) To operate a barber shop unless it is at all times under the personal supervision of a registered barber. (5) To obtain or attempt to obtain a certificate from the Board for money other than the required fee, or for any other thing of value or by fraudulent misrepresentations. Certificates are not transferable to another person. (6) That hereafter in the District of Columbia it shall be unlawful for a person to maintain seven days consecutively any establishment wherein the occupation or trade of barbering, hair dressing, or beauty culture is pursued. All such establishments shall be required to remain closed one day in every seven beginning at midnight or at sunset and no person shall maintain his establishment open to serve the public on the day he has selected it to be closed and has so registered the closing day at the Health Department. (7) To own, manage, operate, or control any barber school or college, part or portion thereof, whether connected therewith or in a separate building, wherein the practice of barbering, as hereinbe- fore defined, is engaged in or carried on unless all entrances to the place wherein the practice of barbering is so engaged in or carried on shall display a sign indicating that the work therein is done by students exclusively. (b) Any person violating any of the provisions of this Act shall upon conviction be fined not less than $25. SEC. 15. This Act shall take effect ninety days after the date of its enactment. EXEMPTIONS 623 Instructors, equip- ment, etc. Student regulations. Apprenticeship. Practices included. Unlawful acts. Practice without a certificate; exception. While knowingly af- flicted with an infec- tious, etc., disease. Employing any but registered barbers, etc. Operating without proper supervision. Bribery, etc. Closing of shops one day in every seven. Barber schools. Signs to Indicate work is done by stu- dents. Penalty for viola- tion of provisions. Effective date. SEC. 16. The provisions of this Act shall not be construed to apply Exemptions. to- (a) Persons authorized by law of the District of Columbia to practice medicine and surgery, osteopathy, or chiropractic, or ersons holding a drugless-practitioner certificate under the law of the Dis- trict of Columbia; Persons authorized to practice medicine, etc.

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