Definitions

1. "Approved" means determined acceptable in writing, by the department. 2. "Aseptic technique" means practices that render and keep the skin site and instruments free from all micro-organisms or contamination. 3. "Department" means the state department of health. 4. "Electrologist" means a person proficient in the permanent removal of hair by electrology and who is currently licensed by the department to practice in North Dakota. 5. "Electrology" means the permanent removal of hair by the conduction of an electrical current through a probe inserted into the hair follicle to destroy the papilla. 6. "Electrology continuing education hour" means a sixty-minute session or home study course approved by a national electrology association or organization, or an infection control or electrology-related session provided by a hospital or another health care related setting. 7. "Facility" means all areas used by the electrologist and client. 8. "Initial license" means the first license. 9. "Instruments" means probes, forceps, hemostats, tweezers, or other equipment required for the actual hair removal process. 10. "National association or organization" means the American electrology association, the international guild of professional electrologists, or the society of clinical and medical electrologists. 11. "Official transcript" means a school's certified document that lists the courses, course hours, and grades of an electrolysis program. 12. "Probe" means the needle or filament used to administer the electric current to the hair-papilla. 13. "Provisional" means license granted based on conditions as established specifically by the department in response to noncompliance with the licensure requirements in this chapter. 14. "Relicensure" means the issuance of any license after the initial license. 15. "Renew" means to extend a current license for one year if compliance with licensure rules has been maintained. 16. "Violation of licensure requirement" means noncompliance with requirements of this chapter.