PURPOSE: This rule clarifies hour requirements as authorized in section 329.040, RSMo.

1. (1) Minimum—Maximum Hours Accepted.

   1. (A) Each school, public institution or salon shall define, for its own purposes, what constitutes a full-time, part-time or evening student, instructor trainee or apprentice, but will be required to designate one (1) of these classifications for each individual enrolled in its program of study and supply the information to the board on the enrollment form supplied by the board.
   2. (B) All students, instructor trainees and apprentices shall be enrolled in a course of study of no less than three (3) hours per day and no more than twelve (12) hours per day with a weekly total that is no less than fifteen
2. (15) hours and no more than seventy-two (72) hours.
3. (2) Change of Status. No student, instructor trainee or apprentice shall be permitted to change his/her designated status of enrollment except by the submission of a properly completed change of status form to the board in accordance with 4 CSR 90-2.010(1)(C).
4. (3) No training hours may be counted towards satisfaction of more than one course of study or classification in a Missouri cosmetology school, however, nothing stated herein prohibits the transfer of training hours between Class CH-hairdressing and Class CA-hairdressing and manicuring course of study.

5. (4) Credit for Out-of-State Training.

   1. (A) An applicant for the Missouri cosmetology examination, as an apprentice or a student, who has obtained training hours outside Missouri may be given credit for those training hours so long as they were received from a licensed school of cosmetology or licensed apprentice program in the other state.
   2. (B) For purposes of review of an application for examination from an applicant pursuant to section 329.050.2, RSMo, a school of cosmetology or an apprentice program in another state or territory of the United States shall be considered to have substantially the same requirements as an educational estab- 20 CSR 2090-8

lishment licensed pursuant to Chapter 329, RSMo, if the board is satisfied that it has substantially the same requirements as set forth in section 329.040.3–7, RSMo, and rule 4 CSR 90-2.010(5)(A).

1. (C) Any person that receives credit for outof-state training but still does not meet the qualifications to take the Missouri cosmetology examination will receive notice from the board of the exact training requirements necessary to completely satisfy the state examination qualifications as set forth in Chapter 329, RSMo.

AUTHORITY: sections 329.040 and 329.210, RSMo Supp. 2003 and 329.230, RSMo 2000.* This rule originally filed as 4 CSR 90- 8.010. This version of rule filed June 26, 1975, effective July 6, 1975. Amended: Filed March 31, 1988, effective June 27, 1988. Amended: Filed Aug. 2, 1990, effective Dec. 31, 1990. Amended: Filed Dec. 14, 1995, effective June 30, 1996. Rescinded and readopted: Filed March 1, 2001, effective Aug. 30, 2001. Amended: Filed Nov. 30, 2001, effective June 30, 2002. Amended: Filed Nov. 3, 2003, effective April 30, 2004. Moved to 20 CSR 2090-8.010, effective Aug. 28, 2006.

*Original authority: 329.040, RSMo 1939, amended 1945, 1959, 1979, 1981, 1987, 1989, 1995, 1997, 2001; 329.210, RSMo 1939, amended 1945, 1949, 1981, 1987, 1993, 1995, 1998, 2001; 329.230, RSMo 1945, amended 1981.