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20-27-1508. Examination — Fee.
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20-27-1508. Examination — Fee.
(a)(1)(A) Each artist in training seeking licensure as an artist under the rules of the Department of Health shall take a written examination prepared or approved by the department before beginning training.
(B) Upon completion of the hours required under § 20-27-1507, a practical examination shall be conducted by the department in each field of training for which the artist in training is seeking licensure.
(2) Until an artist in training receives a passing grade on the practical examination, no artist in training may:
(A) Be licensed as an artist;
(B) Hold himself or herself out as a licensed artist; or
(C) Independently perform a body art procedure without the supervision of a body art trainer.
(b) The department shall levy and collect a nonrefundable fee of fifty dollars ($50.00) from each artist in training who applies to take the written and practical examinations required under this section for licensure as an artist.
(c) A fee collected under this section shall be deposited into the State Treasury, credited to the Public Health Fund, and used exclusively for the Body Art Program of the department.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-27-1508
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20-27-1508. Examination — Fee.
(a)(1)(A) Each artist in training seeking licensure as an artist under the rules of the Department of Health shall take a written examination prepared or approved by the department before beginning training.
(B) Upon completion of the hours required under § 20-27-1507, a practical examination shall be conducted by the department in each field of training for which the artist in training is seeking licensure.
(2) Until an artist in training receives a passing grade on the practical examination, no artist in training may:
(A) Be licensed as an artist;
(B) Hold himself or herself out as a licensed artist; or
(C) Independently perform a body art procedure without the supervision of a body art trainer.
(b) The department shall levy and collect a nonrefundable fee of fifty dollars ($50.00) from each artist in training who applies to take the written and practical examinations required under this section for licensure as an artist.
(c) A fee collected under this section shall be deposited into the State Treasury, credited to the Public Health Fund, and used exclusively for the Body Art Program of the department.
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Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
20-27-1507. Education of artist in training.
(a) An artist trainer shall be a registered instructor in a school licensed by the Department of Health.
(b) The department shall develop standards to determine:
(1) The maximum number of artists in training in a training facility at one time; and
(2) The length of the program in hours and across a range of months.
(c)(1)(A) During the artist training in the fields of tattooing, body piercing, or permanent cosmetics, each artist in training shall complete not less than three hundred seventy-five (375) clock hours of supervised body art work and classroom instruction in a period not less than six (6) months or more than twenty-four (24) months in an establishment licensed under § 20-27-1503 and § 6-51-601 et seq.
(B) During the artist training in the field of branding, each artist in training shall complete not less than three hundred seventy-five (375) clock hours of supervised body art work and classroom instruction in a period not less than six (6) months or more than twenty-four (24) months in an establishment licensed under § 20-27-1503 and § 6-51-601 et seq.
(C) Additional fields of body art training may be added by completing not less than two hundred fifty (250) clock hours of technical and procedural training in each of the other fields of body art in which an artist in training is to be licensed.
(D) An artist in training studying multiple fields of body art at the same time shall complete the total clock hours of all fields in not less than twelve (12) months or more than twenty-four (24) months.
(2)(A) The artist trainer shall maintain a training log of the clock hours completed by the artist in training on forms approved by the department.
(B) The training log shall include without limitation a
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-27-1507
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 20-27-1507. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.