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title: O.C.G.A. § 43-10-17. Employment of persons to wash, shampoo, comb, brush, and blow-dry hair and apply cosmetics in beauty shops, beauty salons, and barber shops.
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# O.C.G.A. § 43-10-17. Employment of persons to wash, shampoo, comb, brush, and blow-dry hair and apply cosmetics in beauty shops, beauty salons, and barber shops.

Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a beauty shop, beauty salon, and barber shop shall be authorized to employ persons to do the following:

(1) Washing, shampooing, combing, brushing, and blow-dry styling; and

(2) Applying cosmetics. Such persons shall not be required to be registered by the board. Moreover, a facility in which an individual performs or individuals perform only shampooing, blow-dry styling, or applying cosmetics and no other practices requiring a license under this chapter is exempt from all facility licensing requirements under this chapter.

## History

Ga. L. 1977, p. 803, § 3; Ga. L. 1979, p. 1327, § 7; Ga. L. 1980, p. 1420, § 8; Ga. L. 1985, p. 1057, § 13; Ga. L. 1997, p. 675, § 2; Ga. L. 2000, p. 814, § 1; Ga. L. 2006, p. 904, § 11/SB 145; Ga. L. 2015, p. 1287, § 2/HB 314; Ga. L. 2024, p. 603, § 2/SB 354, effective July 1, 2024.

## Amendments

The 2024 amendment, effective July 1, 2024, rewrote this Code section, which read: “Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a beauty shop, beauty salon, and barber shop shall be authorized to employ persons to wash, shampoo, comb, and brush hair, and such persons shall not be required to be registered by the board.”