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Chapter 4713-7 Exams
4713-7-01
Notarization and processing of applications for examination.
All applications for examination for any branch of cosmetology shall be made upon forms supplied by the "Board". All statements made on the application form shall be subscribed and sworn to by the applicant and attested to under seal by a notary public. After approval by the "Board", the applicant will receive a date upon which they are scheduled to take the examination and an examination number, which the applicant shall bring to the examination. Upon implementation of electronic or online application process the oath required by section 4713.20 shall be completed through state approved language in lieu of a notary public.
R.C. 119.032 review dates: 08/29/2005 and 03/31/2010
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: RC 4713.08 (A(3)
Rule Amplifies: RC 4713.20
Prior Effective Dates: 11/1/84, 12/17/89, 1/26/97, 4/1/00, 1/10/04
4713-7-02
No communication between applicants during examination.
Each examinee shall sit at an individual table or desk. The examinees shall not communicate with other examinees during the examination and they shall not have any written material, unless provided by the "Board". Pagers, cell phones, calculators or other electronic devices are prohibited within the examination area. Anyone found violating any rule or participating in any other type of misconduct shall be dismissed and the applicant shall automatically fail the examination.
R.C. 119.032 review dates: 08/29/2005 and 03/31/2010
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: RC 4713.02
Rule Amplifies: RC 4713.04
Prior Effective Dates: 11/1/84, 12/17/89, 1/26/97, 4/1/00
The examination rooms shall be closed to everyone except examinees, examiners, models and members of the "Board" unless otherwise permitted by the "Board".
R.C. 119.032 review dates: 08/29/2005 and 03/31/2010
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: RC 4713.02
Rule Amplifies: RC 4713.06
Prior Effective Dates: 11/1/84, 12/17/89, 2/24/91, 1/26/97
4713-7-04
Content of examinations.
The examination for each branch of cosmetology may not be confined to any specific system or method. The examination shall be consistent with the prescribed curriculum for each branch of cosmetology for licensed cosmetology schools of this state, and may include practical demonstrations and written and oral tests as the "Board" deems appropriate.
R.C. 119.032 review dates: 08/29/2005 and 03/31/2010
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: RC 4713.02
Rule Amplifies: RC 4713.06
Prior Effective Dates: 11/1/84, 12/17/89, 1/26/97, 4/1/00
4713-7-05
Language requirements.
All oral and written directions for taking the practical and written licensing examinations given by the "Board" shall be provided in English. No translators or study aids shall be permitted. The "Board" shall provide to an applicant, who is licensed or registered in another state or country per section 4713.34 of the Revised Code, a written examination in any language available from the "Board"s" contracted national examination provider at the examinees request. All requests shall be made with the original application for examination or at least two weeks prior to the scheduled examination date.
R.C. 119.032 review dates: 08/29/2005 and 03/31/2010
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: RC 4713.08 (A(3)
Rule Amplifies: RC 4713.24, 4713.20
Prior Effective Dates: 11/1/84, 12/17/89, 1/26/97, 1/10/04
4713-7-06
Necessary material for examination.
(A) Each examinee shall possess the necessary materials requested by the "Board" for the examination. Models must be able to completely accommodate the examinee in all of the testing areas necessary to include hair of sufficient length to permit a basic cut, permanent wave and curl, and nails long enough to properly demonstrate polish technique. Every model shall be at least fourteen years of age. Mannequins, if used for a basic haircut, must be uncut.
(B) Persons who have attended any cosmetology courses, or been licensed to practice cosmetology or any branch of cosmetology in any jurisdiction are not eligible as models for any examination. Failure to abide by this rule will result in immediate dismissal of the applicant and the entire examination shall be voided.
R.C. 119.032 review dates: 08/29/2005 and 03/31/2010
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: RC 4713.02
Rule Amplifies: RC 4713.06
Prior Effective Dates: 11/1/84, 12/17/89, 1/26/97, 4/1/00
4713-7-07
Examination grading system.
To receive a passing score on any branch of cosmetology examination, the applicant must attain at least a seventy-five score on both the written and practical examinations
R.C. 119.032 review dates: 08/29/2005 and 03/31/2010
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: RC 4713.02
Rule Amplifies: RC 4713.06
Prior Effective Dates: 11/1/84, 12/17/89, 1/26/97, 4/1/00
4713-7-08
Failure of applicants.
Applicants failing to pass their first or second examination may receive a rescheduled examination date no sooner than two weeks following that examination, and shall retake the written and/or practical on which they received a score of less than seventy five. Except those failing a manager's examination, all applicants failing to pass a third examination shall not be rescheduled to take a fourth examination until completion of additional instruction in a licensed school as outlined below. Applicants failing to pass the examination shall pay an examination fee for each succeeding examination.
(A) Manicurists who fail the test for the third time will be required to take 10 hours additional instruction in theory, rules, sanitation, etc. If they fail the written section and 10 hours in manicuring clinic if they failed the practical. These hours may be met through an equivalent credit hour course.
(B) Estheticians who fail the test for the third time will be required to take 30 hours additional instruction in theory, rules, sanitation, etc. If they fail the written section and 30 hours in esthetics clinic if they failed the practical. These hours may be met through an equivalent credit hour course.
(C) Natural hair stylists who fail the test for the third time will be required to take twenty-two and a half hours additional instruction in theory, rules, sanitation, etc. If they fail the written section and twenty-two and a half hours in hairbraiding clinic if they failed the practical. These hours may be met through an equivalent credit hour course.
(D) Hair designers who fail the test for the third time will be required to take 60 hours additional instruction in theory, rules, sanitation, etc. If they fail the written section and 60 hours in hair design clinic if they failed the practical. These hours may be met through an equivalent credit hour course.
(E) Cosmetologists who fail the test for the third time will be required to take seventy-five hours additional instruction in theory, rules, sanitation, etc. If they fail the written section and seventy-five hours in cosmetology clinic if they failed the practical. These hours may be met through an equivalent credit hour course.
R.C. 119.032 review dates: 08/29/2005 and 03/31/2010
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: RC 4713.08(A)(3)
Rule Amplifies: RC 4713.24, 4713.20
Prior Effective Dates: 11/1/84, 12/17/89, 4/1/00, 1/10/04
(A) Upon application to the "Board", as provided in section 4713.34 of the Revised Code, accompanied by the required license fee, a person who is licensed or registered as a cosmetologist or in any branch of cosmetology under the laws of any other state or country, or territory of the United States, or District of Columbia (hereinafter "foreign state") may be granted reciprocity and a license to practice cosmetology, or said branch there to, without requirement of examination if the following are established:
(1) The foreign state from which the person originally obtained his/her cosmetology or branch of cosmetology license or registration shall have substantially equal or greater licensing requirements than those required in the state of Ohio for licensing of cosmetologist or said branches; or the foreign state must have a written reciprocity agreement with Ohio; or the applicant shall have at least five years of experience in a salon;
(2) The foreign state must extend similar reciprocity to the state of Ohio;
(3) That the applicant be eighteen years of age or older;
(4) That the applicant be of good moral character;
(5) The "Board" may require a written & practical examination of any licensee type at its sole discretion, for example all cosmetologists or manicurists.
(6) All applicants for reciprocity with five or more years of experience shall be eligible for licensure upon successfully passing the Ohio manager's examination.
(B) Upon application to the "Board" as provided in section 4713.34 of the Revised Code, accompanied by the required license fee, a person who engaged in cosmetology or in any branch of cosmetology from a state or country, or territory of the United States, or District of Columbia (hereinafter "foreign state") that did not license or register said cosmetologist or said branch thereto, may be granted reciprocity and a license to practice cosmetology or said branch thereto, with examination if at the "Board's" discretion the following conditions are established:
(1) This provision only applies if the state, territory or foreign government does not license occupations licensed by Ohio;
(2) That the applicant be eighteen years of age or older;
(3) That the applicant be of good moral character;
(4) All applicants for all license types shall be required to pass the appropriate written and practical examination.
R.C. 119.032 review dates: 08/29/2005 and 03/31/2010
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: RC 4713.08(A)(6)
Rule Amplifies: RC 4713.34
Prior Effective Dates: 1/26/97, 7/1/00, 1/10/04
4713-7-10
Cosmetology licenses.
The following cosmetology licenses are defined as subsets of the existing license in Revised Code 4713.04.
(A) Hair designer is a cosmetologist license that includes training in hair services only. Applicants for this license must meet all qualifications for the cosmetologist license except applicants shall have received at least twelve hundred hours of instruction in hair servicing aspects only of cosmetology.
(B) Managing hair designer is a managing cosmetologist license that allows a hair designer to operate a beauty salon designated in O.A.C. 4713-11-01(C)(5). applicants for this license shall meet all requirements of the managing cosmetologist license except that at least two hundred and forty hours of training shall be required per the "Board" approved curriculum.
(C) Hair designer instructor is a cosmetology instructor license that allows the instructor to teach only hair aspects of cosmetology. Applicants must meet all requirements of a cosmetology instructor license except that at least eight hundred hours of training shall be required per the "Board" approved curriculum.
(D) Managing natural hairstylist is a managing cosmetologist license that allows a natural hairstylist to operate a beauty salon designated in O.A.C. 4713-11-01(C)(4). Applicants for this license shall meet all requirements of the managing cosmetologist license except that at least one hundred and fifty hours of training shall be required per the "Board" approved curriculum.
(E) Natural hairstylist instructor is a cosmetology instructor license that allows the instructor to teach only hairbraiding aspects of cosmetology. Applicants must meet all requirements of a cosmetology instructor license except that at least four hundred hours of training shall be required per the "Board" approved curriculum.
R.C. 119.032 review dates: 08/29/2005 and 03/31/2010
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: RC 4713.02
Rule Amplifies: RC 4713.04
Prior Effective Dates: 11/1/84, 12/17/89, 4/1/00
4713-7-12
Additional training for students with expired hours.
Applicants who have completed any hours for any branch of cosmetology and some of whose hours have expired due to the five year limit in section 4713.32 of the Revised Code will retain hours after five years as delineated below.
(A) Whatever hours a candidate may have are whole (one hundred per cent) until the end of the five year period.
(B) Candidates then start losing twenty per cent of their hours per year following the five year period.
(1) Students will keep: eighty per cent of hours that are between five and six years old; sixty per cent of hours that are between six and seven years old; forty per cent of hours that are between seven and eight years old; and twenty per cent of hours that are between eight and ten years old.
(2) Thus a student completing a fifteen hundred hour program with all hours over five years but less than six years old would need an additional three hundred hours to be eligible to apply to take the licensing examination.
(3) A student with one thousand hours toward a fifteen hundred hour program that were all between six and seven years old would lose four hundred hours and need nine hundred hours to be eligible to apply to take the licensing examination.
(4) A student with fifteen hundred hours of which only five hundred are over five years old and not over six years old would lose one hundred hours and need one hundred new hours to be eligible to apply to take the licensing examination..
(5) A student whose hours are all more than ten years old would lose all hours.
(C) Students shall have one year from the re-enrollment date in school for each five hundred hours or part thereof to complete the additional hours and schedule their licensing exam.
(D) Should students fail to complete the program in the allotted time frame of subparagraph (4) above a new calculation of expired hours shall be completed and a new school enrollment put in place to document that change.
Eff 4-1-05
Promulgated Under:
119.03
Statutory
Authority:
4713.08(A)(4)
Rule Amplifies:
4713.32
R.C.
119.032 review dates: 04/01/2010