No person may conduct a cosmetology, nail technology, or esthetics school for any of the practices of cosmetology, as applicable, unless that person is licensed as a school by the commission. The commission shall issue the license if the applicant meets the following requirements:

1. (1) The applicant completes the application and provides any required documentation;
2. (2) The application is accompanied by the fee required in this chapter;
3. (3) The applicant has no violations with another cosmetology board;
4. (4) The education offered is a complete program of not less than fifteen hundred hours for a cosmetology program or a complete program of not less than four hundred hours for a nail technician program or a complete program of not less than the hours established by rules pursuant to § 36-15-13 for an esthetician license or the respective equivalent credit hours; and
5. (5) The applicant meets all requirements established by rules adopted pursuant to this chapter.

Source: SDC 1939, § 27.1506; SL 1947, ch 125 , § 1; SL 1957, ch 118 , § 1; SL 1972, ch 206 , § 27; SL 1997, ch 218 , § 12; SL 2003, ch 202 , § 40; SL 2005, ch 201 , § 3; SL 2009, ch 182 , § 2; SL 2018, ch 232 , § 5, eff. Jan. 1, 2019.