Okla. Stat. tit. 59, § 59-199.7

A. Each cosmetology and barber school shall be licensed

annually by the State Board of Cosmetology and Barbering.

Application for the first year’s license for a cosmetology and

barber school shall be accompanied by a fee of Four Hundred Dollars

($400.00), which shall be retained by the Board if the application

is approved and a license is issued. The annual renewal license fee

for cosmetology or barber schools shall be One Hundred Twenty-five

Dollars ($125.00).

B. 1. No license or renewal thereof for a cosmetology or

barber school shall be issued unless the owner thereof furnishes to

the Board a good and sufficient surety bond in the principal sum of

Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00) for the first instructor and an

additional One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) for each additional

instructor, executed by a surety company authorized to do business

in this state, and conditioned on the faithful performance of the

terms and conditions of all contracts entered into between the owner

of the cosmetology or barber school and all persons enrolling

therein.

2. The surety bond shall be in a form approved by the Attorney

General and filed in the Office of the Secretary of State. Suit may

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be brought on the bond by any person injured by reason of the breach

of the conditions thereof.

C. It shall be the duty of the owner or manager of a

cosmetology or barber school to enter into a written contract with

all students before permitting students to attend any classes.

Contracts shall be made out in triplicate, the original copy to be

retained by the school, the duplicate to be given to the student,

and the triplicate to be filed with the Executive Director of the

Board.

D. A school licensed or applying for licensure shall maintain

recognition as an institution of postsecondary study by meeting the

following conditions:

1. The school shall admit as a regular student only an

individual who has earned a recognized high school diploma, or who

is beyond the age of compulsory high school attendance; and

2. The school shall be licensed by name, or in the case of an

applicant, shall apply for licensure by name, to offer one or more

training programs beyond the secondary level.

E. No license for a cosmetology or barber school shall be

issued unless the owner thereof presents evidence satisfactory to

the Board that the school has satisfactory facilities and equipment

and has instructors qualified to give a course of study as provided

in the Oklahoma Cosmetology and Barbering Act.

F. There shall be included in the curriculum for cosmetology

and barber schools, courses of study in the theory of cosmetology

and barbering related theory, studies in manipulative practices,

sterilization and sanitation, shop management, and such other

related subjects as may be approved by the Board.

G. 1. On or before July 1, 2025, the Board shall adopt a

curriculum of required courses of instruction in theory and training

of either one thousand (1,000) clock hours for nonchemical-use

licensure or one thousand two hundred fifty (1,250) hours of

chemical-use licensure or an equivalent number of credit hours as

recognized by the United States Department of Education or a

regional or national accreditation entity recognized by the United

States Department of Education in a basic course to be taught in all

cosmetology or barbering schools in the state. The basic

cosmetology or barbering course shall be designed to qualify

students completing the course to take the examination for a

license.

2. On or before July 1, 2025, cosmetology and barber students

in vocational, trade, and industrial cosmetology and barbering

classes in public schools, parochial schools, private schools or

home schools shall qualify by completing one thousand (1,000) hours

in a basic course of cosmetology or barbering and two hundred fifty
tudents completing the course to take the examination for a

license.

2. On or before July 1, 2025, cosmetology and barber students

in vocational, trade, and industrial cosmetology and barbering

classes in public schools, parochial schools, private schools or

home schools shall qualify by completing one thousand (1,000) hours

in a basic course of cosmetology or barbering and two hundred fifty

(250) hours of approved related subjects to be selected from, but

not limited to, the following high school courses in a public

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school, parochial, private or home school: psychology, biology,

general science, American history, art, typing I, typing II,

business arithmetic, salesmanship, bookkeeping I, bookkeeping II,

related mathematics, English II, English III and English IV.

H. 1. No person shall be eligible to give instruction in

cosmetology or barbering unless the person is the holder of a

current unrevoked instructor license issued by the Board. No person

shall be eligible to give instruction in eyelash extension

application unless the person is the holder of a current unrevoked

eyelash extension instructor certificate issued by the Board. A

manufacturer of eyelash extension application products shall not be

required to obtain an instructor certificate but shall only instruct

on eyelash extension products and not the application of eyelash

extensions.

2. Each cosmetology or barber school shall employ at least one

instructor for the first fifteen students registered therein, and at

least one additional instructor shall be employed for each

additional group of fifteen students, or major fraction thereof.

3. Students utilizing hybrid learning programs are included in

the total student number as referenced in the ratio in paragraph 2

of this subsection.

I. A cosmetology or barbering school may be operated in and as

part of an accredited high school.

J. No cosmetology or barber school owner or an establishment

owner shall charge students or apprentices for cosmetic materials,

supplies, apparatus, or machines used by them in practice work. A

reasonable charge may be made by a cosmetology or barber school for

clinical work performed by students upon persons who are not

students therein. No instructor shall be permitted to do

professional or clinical work in a cosmetology or barber school at

any time.

K. No cosmetology or barber establishment shall ever be

operated in or as a part of a cosmetology school.

L. 1. Students shall:

a. have an eighth-grade education or the equivalent

thereof, and

b. be at least sixteen (16) years of age unless they are

public or private school students who will be sixteen

(16) years of age by November 1 of the year in which

cosmetology or barbering instruction begins.

2. Credit shall not be given to any person by the Board or by a

cosmetology or barber school for hours spent in attending a

cosmetology or barber school unless the person has registered with

the Board as a student prior to the attendance, except that a

student who has attended a cosmetology or barber school out of state

may receive credit for such attendance for transfer upon proper

certification as provided by rule of the Board.

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3. No student shall be credited with more than eight (8) hours’

attendance in a cosmetology or barber school in any one (1) day.

4. No person shall be eligible to take the Board-issued

examination for a license unless such person is at least seventeen
ce for transfer upon proper

certification as provided by rule of the Board.

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3. No student shall be credited with more than eight (8) hours’

attendance in a cosmetology or barber school in any one (1) day.

4. No person shall be eligible to take the Board-issued

examination for a license unless such person is at least seventeen

(17) years of age or a high school graduate.

M. 1. No student shall be eligible to take the examination for

a Board-issued license without furnishing to the Board the affidavit

of the owner of the cosmetology or barber school that the student

has satisfactorily completed the requirements specified in paragraph

1 of subsection G of this section, except public and private school

students who will complete the requirements specified in paragraph 2

of subsection G of this section by the close of the current school

year may take the examination next preceding the end of the school

year.

2. Students who are eligible to take the examination shall be

given an oral examination if requested by their instructor and proof

of qualifying disability is proven.

N. After July 1, 2025, no person shall be eligible to register

for the examination for an instructor’s license unless such person

is a high school graduate, or has obtained a General Equivalency

Diploma (GED) as to which the applicant shall qualify by tests to be

prescribed by the Board and conducted by qualified examiners

selected by the Board, and has satisfactorily completed all hours

required for the appropriate specialty course and an additional six

hundred (600) instructor training hours or equivalent number of

credit hours as recognized by the United States Department of

Education or as recognized by a national accreditation entity

prescribed by the Board in a cosmetology or barber school in this

state

O. The Board shall have the power to conduct examinations

around the state at public locations including, but not limited to,

technology center schools.

P. Each cosmetology or barber school shall prominently display

in a conspicuous place above or to the side of the entrance thereto

a sign identifying it as an institute of learning. The wording on

such sign shall be in plain letters at least three (3) inches high

and at least one (1) inch wide.