Terms Used In Washington Code > Chapter 18.16 - Cosmetologists, hair designers, barbers, manicurists, and estheticians

• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Apprentice: means a person who is engaged in a state-approved apprenticeship program and who must receive a wage or compensation while engaged in the program. See Washington Code 18.16.020
• Apprentice trainer: means a person who gives training to an apprentice in an approved apprenticeship program and who is approved under RCW 18. See Washington Code 18.16.020
• Apprenticeship program: means a state-approved apprenticeship program pursuant to chapter 49. See Washington Code 18.16.020
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Approved apprenticeship shop: means a salon/shop that has been approved under RCW 18. See Washington Code 18.16.020
• Approved security: means surety bond. See Washington Code 18.16.020
• Barber: means a person licensed under this chapter to engage in the practice of barbering. See Washington Code 18.16.020
• Board: means the cosmetology, hair design, barbering, esthetics, and manicuring advisory board. See Washington Code 18.16.020
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Cosmetologist: means a person licensed under this chapter to engage in the practice of cosmetology. See Washington Code 18.16.020
• Crossover training: means training approved by the director as training hours that may be credited to current licensees for similar training received in another profession licensed under this chapter. See Washington Code 18.16.020
• Curriculum: means the courses of study taught at a school, online training by a school, in an approved apprenticeship program established by the Washington state apprenticeship and training council and conducted in an approved salon/shop, or online training by an approved apprenticeship program, set by rule under this chapter, and approved by the department. See Washington Code 18.16.020
• Department: means the department of licensing. See Washington Code 18.16.020
• Director: means the director of the department of licensing or the director's designee. See Washington Code 18.16.020
• Esthetician: means a person licensed under this chapter to engage in the practice of esthetics. See Washington Code 18.16.020
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Hair design: means the practice of arranging, dressing, cutting, trimming, styling, shampooing, permanent waving, chemical relaxing, straightening, curling, bleaching, lightening, coloring, mustache and beard design, and superficial skin stimulation of the scalp. See Washington Code 18.16.020
• Hair designer: means a person licensed under this chapter to engage in the practice of hair design. See Washington Code 18.16.020
• Individual license: means a cosmetology, hair design, barber, manicurist, esthetician, master esthetician, or instructor license issued under this chapter. See Washington Code 18.16.020
• Instructor: means a person who gives instruction in a school, or who provides classroom theory training to apprentices in locations other than in a school, in a curriculum in which he or she holds a license under this chapter, has completed at least five hundred hours of instruction in teaching techniques and lesson planning in a school, or who has documented experience as an instructor for more than five hundred hours in another state in the curriculum of study, and has passed a licensing examination approved or administered by the director. See Washington Code 18.16.020
• Instructor-trainee: means a person who is currently licensed in this state as a cosmetologist, hair designer, barber, manicurist, esthetician, or master esthetician, and is enrolled in an instructor-trainee curriculum in a school licensed under this chapter. See Washington Code 18.16.020
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
• Location license: means a license issued under this chapter for a salon/shop, school, personal services, or mobile unit. See Washington Code 18.16.020
• Manicurist: means a person licensed under this chapter to engage in the practice of manicuring. See Washington Code 18.16.020
• Master esthetician: means a person licensed under this chapter to engage in the practice of master esthetics. See Washington Code 18.16.020
• Mobile unit: is a location license under this chapter where the practice of cosmetology, barbering, esthetics, master esthetics, or manicuring is conducted in a mobile structure. See Washington Code 18.16.020
• Online training: means theory training provided online, by a school licensed under this chapter or an approved apprenticeship program established by the Washington state apprenticeship and training council, in the areas of cosmetology, hair design, master esthetics, manicuring, barbering, esthetics, and instructor-training. See Washington Code 18.16.020
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: means any individual, partnership, professional service corporation, joint stock association, joint venture, or any other entity authorized to do business in this state. See Washington Code 18.16.020
• Personal services: means a location licensed under this chapter where the practice of cosmetology, hair design, barbering, manicuring, esthetics, or master esthetics is performed for clients in the client's home, office, or other location that is convenient for the client. See Washington Code 18.16.020
• Practice of barbering: means the cutting, trimming, arranging, dressing, curling, shampooing, shaving, and mustache and beard design of the hair of the face, neck, and scalp. See Washington Code 18.16.020
• Practice of cosmetology: means arranging, dressing, cutting, trimming, styling, shampooing, permanent waving, chemical relaxing, straightening, curling, bleaching, lightening, coloring, waxing, tweezing, shaving, and mustache and beard design of the hair of the face, neck, and scalp; temporary removal of superfluous hair by use of depilatories, waxing, or tweezing; manicuring and pedicuring, limited to cleaning, shaping, polishing, decorating, and caring for and treatment of the cuticles and nails of the hands and feet, excluding the application and removal of sculptured or otherwise artificial nails; esthetics limited to toning the skin of the scalp, stimulating the skin of the body by the use of preparations, tonics, lotions, or creams; and tinting eyelashes and eyebrows. See Washington Code 18.16.020
• Practice of esthetics: means the care of the skin for compensation by application, use of preparations, antiseptics, tonics, essential oils, exfoliants, superficial and light peels, or by any device, except laser, or equipment, electrical or otherwise, or by wraps, compresses, cleansing, conditioning, stimulation, superficial skin stimulation, pore extraction, or product application and removal; temporary removal of superfluous hair by means of lotions, creams, appliance, waxing, threading, tweezing, or depilatories, including chemical means; and application of product to the eyelashes and eyebrows, including extensions, design and treatment, tinting and lightening of the hair, excluding the scalp. See Washington Code 18.16.020
• Practice of manicuring: means the cleaning, shaping, polishing, decorating, and caring for and treatment of the cuticles and the nails of the hands or feet, and the application and removal of sculptured or otherwise artificial nails by hand or with mechanical or electrical apparatus or appliances. See Washington Code 18.16.020
• Practice of master esthetics: means the care of the skin for compensation including all of the methods allowed in the definition of the practice of esthetics. See Washington Code 18.16.020
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• School: means any establishment that offers curriculum of instruction in the practice of cosmetology, hair design, barbering, esthetics, master esthetics, manicuring, or instructor-trainee to students and is licensed under this chapter. See Washington Code 18.16.020
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
• Student: means a person sixteen years of age or older who is enrolled in a school licensed under this chapter and receives instruction in any of the curricula of cosmetology, barbering, hair design, esthetics, master esthetics, manicuring, or instructor-training with or without tuition, fee, or cost, and who does not receive any wage or commission. See Washington Code 18.16.020