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A. An applicant for a barber license shall file with the board a written application on a form prescribed by the board.
B. An applicant for a barber license shall meet all of the following:
1. Do either of the following:
(a) Complete and receive appropriate credits for at least two years of high school education or the equivalent as prescribed by the board in its rules and submit satisfactory evidence that the applicant is at least sixteen years of age.
(b) Submit to the board satisfactory evidence that the applicant is at least eighteen years of age.
2. Submit to the board satisfactory evidence that the applicant meets any of the following:
(a) Is a graduate of a barbering course consisting of at least one thousand two hundred hours of training in a school licensed by the board.
(b) Is a graduate of a barbering school in another state or country that at the time of the applicant's graduation had substantially the same requirements as this state for schools that are licensed by the board.
(c) Completed a United States department of labor-approved or a department of economic security-approved apprenticeship program in barbering that includes at least two hundred fifty hours of infection protection and law review instruction. The applicant shall complete the instruction prescribed by this subdivision through either:
(i) A school that is licensed pursuant to this chapter or a school or program in another state that has, in the board's opinion, licensure requirements that are substantially equivalent to the requirements of this state.
(ii) A department of economic security-approved apprenticeship program.
3. Pass the examinations for a barber license.
4. Pay the fees prescribed in section 32-507.
C. Notwithstanding subsection B, paragraph 2 of this section, an applicant for a barber license who holds a cosmetologist license or a hairstylist license issued pursuant to this chapter shall complete a two hundred hour course consisting of barbering techniques in a school licensed by the board.