1. It is unlawful for a person to practice cosmetology arts and sciences with or without compensation unless the person possesses a license issued under section 157.3. However, practices listed in section 157.1 when performed by the following persons are not defined as the practice of cosmetology arts and sciences:
a. Licensed physicians and surgeons, osteopaths, osteopathic physicians and surgeons, nurses, dentists, podiatric physicians, optometrists, chiropractors, and physical therapists, when exclusively engaged in the practice of their respective professions.
b. Licensed barbers who practice barbering as defined in section 158.1.
c. Students enrolled in licensed schools of cosmetology arts and sciences or barber schools who are practicing under the instruction or immediate supervision of an instructor.
d. Persons who perform without compensation any of the practices listed in section 157.1 on an emergency basis or on a casual basis.
e. Employees and residents of hospitals, health care facilities, orphans' homes, juvenile homes, and other similar facilities who shampoo, arrange, dress, or curl the hair of any resident without receiving direct compensation from the person receiving the service.
f. Persons who perform any of the practices listed in section 157.1 on themselves or on a member of the person's immediate family.
g. Employees of a licensed barbershop when manicuring fingernails, if permitted under section 158.14, subsection 2.
h. Persons who apply samples of makeup, nail polish or other nail care products, cosmetics, or other cosmetology or esthetics preparations to persons to demonstrate the products in the regular course of business.
2. Cosmetologists shall not represent themselves to the public as electrologists, estheticians, or nail technologists unless the cosmetologist has completed the additional course study for the respective practice as prescribed by the board pursuant to section 157.10.
[C27, 31, 35, § 2585-b2; C39, § 2585.11; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 77, 79, 81, § 157.2]
89 Acts, ch 240, § 2; 92 Acts, ch 1205, § 2; 93 Acts, ch 61, § 2, 3; 96 Acts, ch 1034, § 68
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