Nevada Revised Statutes 644A.615 – Display of license; limitation on persons to whom space may be leased; limitation on persons who may be employed
1. Every holder of a license issued by the Board to operate a cosmetological establishment shall display in plain view of members of the general public:
Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 644A.615
- 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.
- Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
- person: means a natural person, any form of business or social organization and any other nongovernmental legal entity including, but not limited to, a corporation, partnership, association, trust or unincorporated organization. See Nevada Revised Statutes 0.039
(a) In the principal office or place of business of the holder, the license or a duplicate of the license; and
(b) At each cosmetological establishment operated by the holder, a sign of sufficient size to be legible to members of the general public stating that the establishment is not a medical facility.
2. Except as otherwise provided in this section, the operator of a cosmetological establishment may lease space to or employ only licensed or registered, as applicable, nail technologists, electrologists, estheticians, advanced estheticians, hair designers, shampoo technologists, hair braiders and cosmetologists at the establishment to provide services relating to the practice of cosmetology. This subsection does not prohibit an operator of a cosmetological establishment from:
(a) Leasing space to or employing a barber. Such a barber remains under the jurisdiction of the State Barbers’ Health and Sanitation Board and remains subject to the laws and regulations of this State applicable to his or her business or profession.
(b) Leasing space to any other professional, including, without limitation, a provider of health care pursuant to subsection 3. Each such professional remains under the jurisdiction of the regulatory body which governs his or her business or profession and remains subject to the laws and regulations of this State applicable to such business or profession.
3. The operator of a cosmetological establishment may lease space at the cosmetological establishment to a provider of health care for the purpose of providing health care within the scope of his or her practice. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4, the provider of health care shall not use the leased space to provide such health care at the same time a cosmetologist uses that space to engage in the practice of cosmetology. A provider of health care who leases space at a cosmetological establishment pursuant to this subsection remains under the jurisdiction of the regulatory body which governs his or her business or profession and remains subject to the laws and regulations of this State applicable to such business or profession.
4. A provider of health care who is a health care professional may use leased space at a cosmetological establishment to provide health care associated with the supervision of an advanced esthetician pursuant to NRS 644A.545 at the same time as a cosmetologist uses that space to engage in the practice of cosmetology.
5. As used in this section:
(a) ’Health care professional’ has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 453C.030.
(b) ’Provider of health care’ means a person who is licensed, certified or otherwise authorized by the law of this State to administer health care in the ordinary course of business or practice of a profession.
(c) ’Space’ includes, without limitation, a separate room in the cosmetological establishment.