Tennessee § 63-26-102 - Chapter definitions.

§ 63-26-102. Chapter definitions.

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: “Commissioner” means the commissioner of health and includes designees of the commissioner of health; “Electrologist” means any person practicing electrolysis for the permanent removal of hair; “Electrology” means the art and practice relating to the removal of hair from the normal skin of the human body by 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 the hair; “Electrology instructor” means an electrologist who is licensed by the commissioner to practice and teach electrology; “Electrolysis” means the process by which the 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, whether the process employs direct electric current or short wave alternating electric current or combination of both, or by FDA approved laser beam process designated for permanent hair removal; and “School” means an electrology school teaching the art of electrology. Acts 1988, ch. 896, § 4; 1993, ch. 342, § 1; T.C.A., § 62-34-202 ; Acts 2009, ch. 456, §§ 1, 37. Compiler's Notes. Acts 2009, ch. 456, § 41 provided that all rules and regulations filed by the board of electrolysis in the office of secretary of state on June 23, 2009, shall be deemed to be rules and regulations of the commissioner of health. The secretary of state is authorized and directed to change any references to the board of electrolysis to references to the commissioner of health in rules and regulations promulgated by the board of electrolysis pursuant to the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5. The rules and regulations of the board of electrolysis that were properly promulgated pursuant to title 4, chapter 5 shall remain in effect until subsequently amended or repealed.