[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Council of the Town of Johnston 12-10-1979
by Ord. No. 440 as Sec. 15-13 of the 1979 Code. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
For the purpose of these regulations, and pursuant to Title 5, Chapter
10, of the General Laws of Rhode Island, as amended, the following terms shall
have the meanings indicated:
Any person who shaves or trims the beard, waves, dresses, singes,
shampoos, or dyes the hair or applies hair tonics, cosmetic preparations,
antiseptics, powders; oil clays, or lotions to the scalp, face or neck of
any person; or cuts the hair of any person, gives facial and scalp massages,
or treatments with oils, creams, lotions, or other preparations.
Any person who engages in the practice of esthetics, and is duly
licensed as an esthetician.
A shop licensed under Title 5, Chapter 10, of the General Laws of
Rhode Island to do esthetics of any person.
A shop licensed under Title 5, Chapter 10, of the General Laws of
Rhode Island to do barbering or hairdressing/cosmetology, or both, to any
person.
Any person who arranges, dresses, curls, cuts, waves, singes, bleaches,
or colors the hair or treats the scalp, or manicures the nails of any person
either with or without compensation or who, by the use of the hands or appliances,
or of cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, tonics, lotions, creams, powders,
oils or clays, engages, with or without compensation, in massaging, cleansing,
stimulating, manipulating, exercising, or beautifying or in doing similar
work upon the neck, face or arms or who removes superfluous hair from the
body of any person.
A shop licensed under Title 5, Chapter 10, of the General Laws of
Rhode Island to do manicuring only on the nails of any person.
Any person who engages in the practice of manicuring for compensation,
and is duly licensed as a manicurist.
The engaging by any licensed barber in all of any combination of
the following practices; shaving or trimming the beard or cutting the hair;
giving facial and scalp massages or treatments with oils, creams, lotions,
or other preparations either by hand or mechanical appliances; singeing, shampooing,
arranging, dressing, curling, waving, chemical waving, hair relaxing, or dying
the hair or applying hair tonics; applying cosmetic preparations, antiseptics,
powders, oils, clays or lotions to scalp, face, or neck.
The practice of cleansing, stimulating, manipulating, and beautifying
skin, including but not limited to the treatment of such skin problems as
dehydration, temporary capillary dilation, excessive oiliness, and clogged
pores.
The engaging by any licensed hairdresser or cosmetician in any one
or more of the following practices; the application of the hands or of mechanical
or electrical apparatus, with or without cosmetic preparations, tonics, lotions,
creams, antiseptics, or clays, to massage, cleanse stimulate, manipulate,
exercise, or otherwise improve or to beautify the scalp, face, neck, shoulders,
arms, bust, or upper part of the body or the manicuring of the nails or any
person; or the removing of superfluous hair from the body of any person; or
the arranging, dressing, curling, waving, weaving, cleansing, cutting, singeing,
bleaching, coloring, or similarly treating the hair of any person.
The cutting, trimming, polishing, tinting, coloring, or cleansing
the nails of any person.
[1]No certificate of occupancy for any shop, place of business, or establishment
to be used in the practice of barbering, hairdressing and cosmetic therapy,
manicuring and/or esthetics shall be issued prior to presentation of a valid
license which has been issued for the practice of barbering, hairdressing
and cosmetic therapy, manicuring and/or esthetics in that shop, place of business,
or establishment pursuant to Title 5, Chapter 10, of the General Laws of Rhode
Island.
