{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-17-26-410","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 17-26-410","heading":"Instructor qualifications","body":"(a) (1) (A) A person employed in a school to instruct students in the school shall be licensed as an instructor in the field in which he or she specializes. (B) A licensed instructor in good standing is not required to renew his or her specialty license. (2) A licensed instructor shall: (A) Be twenty-one (21) years of age or older and have had six hundred (600) hours of teacher training in a school of cosmetology; (B) Have passed an instructor's written examination given by the Department of Health, a practical examination administered by the school, and have received an instructor's license; and (C) Have received not less than eight (8) hours of additional training in an instructor's training seminar or continuing education course certified by the department. (b) A licensed instructor shall not teach outside the profession in which the license to practice allows. (c) A cosmetology school shall offer an education in cosmetology regardless of whether the curriculum includes a specialty course. Amended by Act 2017, No. 973,§ 3, eff. 8/1/2017. Amended by Act 2017, No. 972,§ 2, eff. 8/1/2017. Acts 1955, No. 358, Art. 8, § 3; 1961, No. 490, § 5; 1965, No. 403, § 6; 1973, No. 566, § 4; 1975, No. 532, § 3; 1977, No. 420, § 3; A.S.A. 1947, § 71-854; Acts 1987, No. 465, § 1; 2007, No. 223, § 39; 2009, No. 4, § 20.\n\n(a) (1) (A) A person employed in a school to instruct students in the school shall be licensed as an instructor in the field in which he or she specializes. (B) A licensed instructor in good standing is not required to renew his or her specialty license. (2) A licensed instructor shall: (A) Be twenty-one (21) years of age or older and have had six hundred (600) hours of teacher training in a school of cosmetology; (B) Have passed an instructor's written examination given by the Department of Health, a practical examination administered by the school, and have received an instructor's license; and (C) Have received not less than eight (8) hours of additional training in an instructor's training seminar or continuing education course certified by the department.\n\n(1) (A) A person employed in a school to instruct students in the school shall be licensed as an instructor in the field in which he or she specializes. (B) A licensed instructor in good standing is not required to renew his or her specialty license.\n\n(A) A person employed in a school to instruct students in the school shall be licensed as an instructor in the field in which he or she specializes.\n\n(B) A licensed instructor in good standing is not required to renew his or her specialty license.\n\n(2) A licensed instructor shall: (A) Be twenty-one (21) years of age or older and have had six hundred (600) hours of teacher training in a school of cosmetology; (B) Have passed an instructor's written examination given by the Department of Health, a practical examination administered by the school, and have received an instructor's license; and (C) Have received not less than eight (8) hours of additional training in an instructor's training seminar or continuing education course certified by the department.\n\n(A) Be twenty-one (21) years of age or older and have had six hundred (600) hours of teacher training in a school of cosmetology;\n\n(B) Have passed an instructor's written examination given by the Department of Health, a practical examination administered by the school, and have received an instructor's license; and\n\n(C) Have received not less than eight (8) hours of additional training in an instructor's training seminar or continuing education course certified by the department.\n\n(b) A licensed instructor shall not teach outside the profession in which the license to practice allows.\nthe Department of Health, a practical examination administered by the school, and have received an instructor's license; and\n\n(C) Have received not less than eight (8) hours of additional training in an instructor's training seminar or continuing education course certified by the department.\n\n(b) A licensed instructor shall not teach outside the profession in which the license to practice allows.\n\n(c) A cosmetology school shall offer an education in cosmetology regardless of whether the curriculum includes a specialty course.","path":["AR Code","Title 17","Chapter 26","Subchapter 4"],"source_url":"https://oss-data-us.vaquill.ai/v2026.08/us_ar_statutes.parquet","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:41Z","sha256":"c23699bc1e089e1ff6b25734fc5518436a5bed6a63a4faf156ac4ce05120ad3c","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-17-26-409","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-17-26-411"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}