CODE OF VIRGINIA

EXEMPTIONS (§ 54.1-701)

The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to:

   1.  Persons authorized by the laws of the Commonwealth to practice medicine
   and surgery or osteopathy or chiropractic;

   2.  Registered nurses licensed to practice in the Commonwealth;

   3.  Persons employed in state or local penal or correctional institutions,
   rehabilitation centers, sanatoria, or institutions for care and treatment of
   individuals with mental illness or intellectual disability, or for care and
   treatment of geriatric patients, as barbers, cosmetologists, wax technicians,
   nail technicians, estheticians, barber instructors, cosmetology instructors,
   wax technician instructors, nail technician instructors, or esthetics
   instructors who practice only on inmates of or patients in such sanatoria or
   institutions;

   4.  Persons licensed as funeral directors or embalmers in the Commonwealth;

   5.  Gratuitous services as a barber, nail technician, cosmetologist, wax
   technician, tattooer, body-piercer, or esthetician;

   6.  Students enrolled in an approved school taking a course in barbering, nail
   care, cosmetology, waxing, tattooing, body-piercing, or esthetics;

   7.  Persons working in a cosmetology salon whose duties are expressly confined
   to the shampooing and cleansing of human hair under the direct supervision of
   a cosmetologist or barber;

   8.  Apprentices serving in a barbershop, nail salon, waxing salon, cosmetology
   salon, or esthetics spa licensed by the Board in accordance with the
   Board’s regulations;

   9.  Schools of barbering, nail care, waxing, or cosmetology in public schools;
   and

   10.  Persons whose activities are confined solely to applying make-up,
   including such activities that are ancillary to applying make-up.

HISTORY: 1962, c. 639, § 4, § 54-83.5; 1968, c. 622; 1988, c. 765; 2000, c.
726; 2002, cc. 797, 869; 2003, c. 600; 2005, c. 829; 2012, cc. 476, 507, 803,
835.