Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 37. PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS

CHAPTER 31. BARBERING, COSMETOLOGY, ELECTROLOGY, ESTHETICS, AND MANICURING

Part 3. Licensing

Prohibited Acts

37-31-301. Prohibited acts. (1) Without an appropriate license issued under this chapter, it is unlawful:

(a) to practice barbering, barbering nonchemical, cosmetology, electrology, esthetics, or manicuring for compensation;

(b) for an unlicensed student to provide services as a barber, a barber nonchemical, a cosmetologist, an electrologist, an esthetician, or a manicurist other than in a licensed school;

(c) to own, manage, or operate a salon, shop, booth, or school; or to teach in a school other than as a student enrolled in a teacher training course.

(2) It is unlawful:

(a) to employ or use an unlicensed person as a barber, a barber nonchemical, a cosmetologist, an electrologist, an esthetician, or a manicurist;

(b) for a teacher or student teacher to practice barbering, barbering nonchemical, cosmetology, electrology, esthetics, or manicuring on the public in a school;

(c) for student teachers to substitute for full-time teachers;

(d) to operate a salon, shop, or booth in connection with a school;

(e) to practice barbering, barbering nonchemical, cosmetology, electrology, esthetics, or manicuring outside a licensed salon or shop as provided in this chapter, except when a licensee is requested:

(i) by a customer to go to a place other than a licensed salon or shop and is sent to the customer from a licensed salon or shop; or

(ii) by a customer with a disability or homebound customer to go to the customer's place of residence; or

(f) to violate any of the provisions of this chapter.

History: En. Sec. 17, Ch. 104, L. 1929; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 13, L. 1931; re-en. Sec. 3228.17, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 14, Ch. 222, L. 1939; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 140, L. 1959; R.C.M. 1947, 66-817(A), (B); amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 602, L. 1985; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 88, L. 1989; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 23, L. 1993; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 473, L. 1993; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 305, L. 1997; amd. Sec. 28, Ch. 472, L. 1997; amd. Sec. 8, Ch. 243, L. 2003; amd. Sec. 5, Ch. 15, L. 2015; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 544, L. 2021.