Crossover Renewals, Inactive Licenses and Reinstatements

PURPOSE: This rule establishes requirements for crossover renewals, inactive licenses and reinstatements for crossover licenses. (1) Renewals. Every two (2) years (biennially) the renewal application for active crossover licensees must be completed, signed, accompanied by the appropriate renewal fee, and returned to the board office prior to the expiration date of the license. All licenses shall expire on September 30 of each odd-numbered year. Any application postmarked after September 30 will be returned and the applicant will be required to reinstate. (A) Failure of a licensee to receive the notice and application to renew his/her license shall not excuse him/her from the requirements of Chapters 328 and 329, RSMo, to renew that license. A license, which has not been renewed prior to the renewal date, or placed on inactive status, shall expire on the renewal date. Any licensee who fails to renew shall not perform or offer to perform any act for which a license is required. (B) During the renewal period, an applicant may apply to solely renew either the barber or cosmetology portion of the applicant’s crossover license. A former crossover applicant seeking to renew his/her license in a single profession under this subsection shall comply with all requirements and fees applicable to the renewal of the individual license sought. Upon being issued an individual license pursuant to this subsection, the applicant shall surrender and submit the crossover license to the board and the crossover license shall be deemed null and void. (C) Renewal applicants for a crossover school or establishment license shall comply with 20 CSR 2085-12.010(7) and 20 CSR 2085-10.010(4). (2) Inactive Licenses. A crossover operator licensee or instructor may choose to place his/her license on an inactive status by signing a change in licensure status affidavit stating that he/she will not practice as a crossover licensee in Missouri and submitting that application to the board office along with the inactive license fee. An inactive license will be issued to individuals requesting inactive status. All inactive licenses shall expire on September 30 of each odd-numbered year. (A) If the licensee decides to again practice as a licensee he/she must complete a reactivation application and submit it along with the current renewal fee. The board reserves the right pursuant to Chapters 328 and 329, RSMo, to direct any such applicant to take an examination to reactivate. (B) To reactivate the license, instructors shall be required to attend a board approved seminar within the two (2) years immediately preceding the reactivation date and submit evidence of attendance with a change in licensure status affidavit for each activated license. (C) An inactive crossover licensee is not eligible to practice in Missouri and will be subject to disciplinary action if he/she practices or offers to practice in Missouri as a barber or cosmetologist. Any inactive instructor is not eligible to teach while holding an inactive license and will be subject to disciplinary action if he/she teaches or offers to teach in Missouri. (3) Reinstatement of Expired License— Cosmetologist and Instructors. The holder of an expired crossover cosmetologist or instructor license may submit an application to the board to reinstate that license without examination within two (2) years of the date the license expired. The application shall be on a form supplied by the board and shall be accompanied by the license renewal fee plus the late fee and other information as the board may require. (A) Any person who has allowed his/her crossover license to expire for a period of more than two (2) years but less than five (5) years may submit an application to the board to reinstate that license by examination. The applicant for reinstatement shall be required to complete the applicable practical portions of the state licensure examinations for both a barber license and the requested cosmetology license. (B) Any person who has allowed his/her crossover license to expire for a period of more than five (5) years may submit an application to the board to reinstate the crossover license and shall be required to complete all examination and training requirements applicable to new licensees for a crossover license. (C) Applications for reinstatement by examination shall be properly completed on a form supplied by the board and shall include or be accompanied by the individual’s license number, the license renewal fee and the late fee, two (2) United States passport photographs measuring approximately two inches by two inches (2" × 2") which have been taken within the last five (5) years and other information as the board may require. (D) In order to be scheduled for examination to reinstate an expired license, the properly completed application must be received by the board along with the required fees no fewer than fourteen (14) days prior to the first day of each scheduled examination. Applications received after this cut-off date and all applications received after every available space for the examination has been filled, whether that application was received prior to or after this cut-off date, shall be scheduled for the next regularly scheduled examination. (E) In lieu of reinstatement of the crossover license, an applicant may apply to individually reinstate just the applicant’s barber license or cosmetology license. A former crossover applicant seeking to reinstate his/her license in a single profession shall comply with 20 CSR 2085-5.010 for prospective barber licensees or 20 CSR 2085-7.010 for prospective cosmetology licensees. AUTHORITY: Chapters 328 and 329, RSMo 2000 and Supp. 2007 and sections 329.010.7 and 329.025.1, RSMo Supp. 2007.* Original rule filed Aug. 1, 2007, effective Feb. 29, 2008. *Original authority: Chapters 328 and 329, see Missouri Revised Statutes; 329.010, RSMo 1939, amended 1979, 1995, 2001, 2004, 2005; and 329.025, RSMo 2005. AND INSURANCE Division 2085—Board of Cosmetology and Barber Examiners