Louisiana § RS 37:3051 - Definitions
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§ RS 37:3051. Definitions
When used in this Chapter:
(1) "Apprentice" means an individual engaged in learning the theory and practice of electrology in an electrologist apprenticeship program.
(2) "Board" means the State Board of Electrolysis Examiners.
(3) "Electrologist" means any person who for compensation practices electrolysis for the permanent removal of hair, except a physician licensed to practice medicine who performs electrolysis in his practice or a person who engages, on behalf of a manufacturer or distributor, solely in demonstrating the use of any machine or other article for the purpose of sale, without charge to the person who is the subject of the demonstration.
(4) "Electrologist apprenticeship program" means an establishment which teaches or offers to teach the theory and practice of electrology and which teaches or offers to teach instructors the theory and practice of teaching electrology, without financial remuneration from the apprentice or the student instructor.
(5) "Electrologist technician" means an individual who for compensation practices electrolysis for the permanent removal of hair under the direct supervision of a licensed electrologist and who has completed a two hundred-hour course of instruction at an approved electrology school or electrologist apprenticeship program.
(6) "Electrology" means the art and practice of removing hair from the normal skin of the body by the application of an electric current to the hair papilla by means of a needle or needles so as to cause growth inactivity of the hair papilla and thus permanently remove hair.
(7) "Electrolysis" means the process by which hair is removed from the normal skin by the application of an electric current to the hair root by means of a needle or needles being inserted into the hair follicle, whether the process employs direct electric current or short wave alternating electric current.
(8) "School", "school of electrology", or "electrology school" means an establishment which teaches or offers to teach students the theory and practice of electrology and which teaches or offers to teach student instructors the theory and practice of teaching electrology, for financial remuneration from the student, student instructor, or both.
(9) "Student" means an individual engaged in learning the theory and practice of electrology at a school of electrology.
(10) "Student instructor" means an individual learning the theory and practice of teaching electrology in an electrology school or an electrologist apprenticeship program.
Added by Acts 1979, No. 748, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1980; Acts 2001, No. 792, §1.
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