ARSD 20:42:03:06.01. Applicant for licensure by reciprocity allowed credit for work experience

An applicant for licensure by reciprocity may be allowed credit for work experience as follows: (1) Cosmetologist license: a maximum of seven hundred fifty hours of the school education hours required in § 20:42:06:09 may be earned through work experience. Two hours of work experience equals one hour of school education. If the applicant obtained the work experience more than five years before the date of the application, the applicant must take a commission-approved safety and infection control procedures course in order to receive credit for the work experience; (2) Nail technician license: a maximum of two hundred hours of the school education hours required in § 20:42:06:09.01 may be earned through work experience. Two hours of work experience equals one hour of school education. If the applicant obtained the work experience more than five years before the date of the application, the applicant must take a commission-approved safety and infection control procedures course in order to receive credit for the work experience; and (3) Esthetician license: a maximum of three hundred hours of the school education hours required in § 20:42:06:09.02 may be earned through work experience. Two hours of work experience equals one hour of school education. If the applicant obtained the work experience more than five years before the date of the application, the applicant must take a commission-approved safety and infection control procedures course in order to receive credit for the work experience. If the applicant holds a cosmetology-related license that is not equivalent to a cosmetology, nail technology, or esthetics license in this state, the commission may allow credit for relevant work experience to apply toward the hours of education in the same manner as provided in this section for the applicable license sought by the applicant.