Washington Code 18.16.290 – License — Inactive status
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(1) If the holder of an individual license in good standing submits a written and notarized request that the licensee’s cosmetology, hair design, barber, manicurist, esthetician and master esthetician, or instructor license be placed on inactive status, together with a fee equivalent to that established by rule for a duplicate license, the department shall place the license on inactive status until the expiration date of the license. If the date of the request is no more than six months before the expiration date of the license, a request for a two-year extension of the inactive status, as provided under subsection (2) of this section, may be submitted at the same time as the request under this subsection.
Terms Used In Washington Code 18.16.290
- Barber: means a person licensed under this chapter to engage in the practice of barbering. See Washington Code 18.16.020
- Department: means the department of licensing. 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
(2) If the holder of a license placed on inactive status under this section submits, by the expiration date of the license, a written and notarized request to extend that status for an additional two years, the department shall, without additional fee, extend the expiration date of: (a) The licensee’s individual license; and (b) the inactive status for two years from the expiration date of the license.
(3) A license placed on inactive status under this section may not be extended more frequently than once in any twenty-four month period or for more than six consecutive years.
(4) If, by the expiration date of a license placed on inactive status under this section, a licensee is unable, or fails, to request that the status be extended and the license is not renewed, the license shall be canceled.
NOTES:
Notice of chapter 51, Laws of 2004—Effective date—2004 c 51: See notes following RCW 18.16.060.