The State Board of Cosmetology and Barbering is hereby authorized to deny, revoke, suspend, or refuse to renew any license, certificate, or registration that it is authorized to issue under the Oklahoma Cosmetology and Barbering Act for any of the following causes:

1. 1. Conviction of a felony as shown by a certified copy of the record of the court;
2. 2. Gross malpractice or gross incompetence;
3. 3. Fraud practiced in obtaining a license or registration;
4. 4. A license or certificate holder's continuing to practice while afflicted with an infectious, contagious, or communicable disease;
5. 5. Habitual drunkenness or addiction to use of habit forming drugs;
6. 6. Advertising by means of statements known to be false or deceptive;
7. 7. Continued or flagrant violation of any rules of the Board, or continued practice by a Board licensee in a cosmetology salon or barber shop wherein violations of the rules of the Board are being committed within the knowledge of the operator;
8. 8. Failure to display license or certificate as required by the Oklahoma Cosmetology and Barbering Act;
9. 9. Continued practice of cosmetology or barbering after expiration of a license therefor;
10. 10. Employment by a salon or barber shop owner or manager of any person to perform any of the practices of cosmetology or barbering who is not duly licensed to perform the services; or
11. 11. Practicing cosmetology or barbering in an immoral or unprofessional manner.

Laws 1949, HB 129, p. 396, § 11, emerg. eff. June 6, 1949; Amended by Laws 2000, SB 513, c. 355, § 12, emerg. eff. July 1, 2000 (superseded document available); Amended by Laws 2003, HB 1150, c. 56, § 6 (superseded document available); Amended by Laws 2013, HB 1467, c. 229, § 95, eff. November 1, 2013 (superseded document available).