Title 32 — Professions and Occupations

The board, the attorney general, a county attorney or any other person may apply to the superior court in the county in which acts or practices of any person which constitute a violation of this chapter or the rules adopted pursuant to this chapter are alleged to have occurred fo…

A. Examination materials, records of examination grading and performance and transcripts of educational institutions are confidential and are not subject to inspection pursuant to title 39, chapter 1, article 2. B. All investigation files are confidential and are not subject to i…

1. "Active military member" means any person with full-time duty status in the armed forces of the United States, including members of the national guard and reserve. 2. "Adverse action" means any administrative, civil, equitable or criminal action allowed by a member state's law…

1. License and regulate cosmetology. 2. Have a mechanism or entity in place to receive and investigate complaints about licensees practicing in that state. 3. Require licensees within that state to pass a cosmetology competency examination before being licensed to provide cosmeto…

B. On receiving an application for a multistate license, according to commission rules, a member state's state licensing authority shall ascertain whether the applicant meets the requirements for a multistate license under this compact. C. If an applicant meets the requirements f…

B. If a licensee changes the licensee's home state by moving between two member states: 1. The licensee shall immediately apply for the reissuance of the licensee's multistate license in the licensee's new home state. The licensee shall pay all applicable fees and notify the prev…

B. Insofar as practical, a member state's state licensing authority shall cooperate with the commission and with each entity exercising independent regulatory authority over the practice of cosmetology according to the provisions of this compact. C. Discipline is the sole respons…

B. A home state may take adverse action on a multistate license based on the investigative information, current significant investigative information or adverse action of a remote state. C. In addition to the powers conferred by state law, each remote state's state licensing auth…

[Repealed or reserved.]

B. Each member state shall have and be limited to one delegate selected by that member state's state licensing authority. The delegate shall be an administrator of the state licensing authority of the member state or the administrator's designee. C. The commission shall establish…

1. Overseeing the day-to-day activities of the administration of this compact, including compliance with the provisions of this compact and the commission's rules and bylaws, and other duties as deemed necessary. 2. Recommending to the commission changes to the rules or bylaws, c…

B. Notwithstanding subsection D of this section, the commission may convene an emergency public meeting by providing at least twenty-four hours' prior notice on the commission's website and by any other means as provided in the commission's rules. The commission may dispense with…

A. The commission shall pay, or provide for the payment of, the reasonable expenses of its establishment, organization and ongoing activities. B. The commission may accept any and all appropriate sources of revenue, donations and grants of monies, equipment, supplies, materials a…

B. The commission shall defend any member, officer, executive director, employee or representative of the commission in any civil action seeking to impose liability arising out of any actual or alleged act, error or omission that occurred within the scope of commission employment…

B. The commission shall assign each applicant for a multistate license a unique identifier, as determined by commission rules. C. Notwithstanding any other law, a member state shall submit a uniform data set to the data system on all individuals to whom this compact applies as re…

B. Commission rules have the force of law in each member state, except that if commission rules conflict with the laws of the member state that establish the member state's scope of practice laws governing the practice of cosmetology as held by a court of competent jurisdiction, …

B. Venue is proper and judicial proceedings by or against the commission shall be brought solely and exclusively in a court of competent jurisdiction where the principal office of the commission is located. The commission may waive venue and jurisdictional defenses to the extent …

B. On or after the effective date of this compact, the commission shall convene and review the enactment of each of the charter member states to determine if the statute enacted by each such charter member state is materially different than the model compact statute. C. A charter…

B. The provisions of this compact are severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence or provision of this compact is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be contrary to the constitution of any member state, of a state seeking participation in this compact or of the United…

B. Any laws, statutes, rules or other legal requirements in a member state that conflict with this compact are superseded to the extent of the conflict. C. All permissible agreements between the commission and the member states are binding in accordance with their terms.