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20:42:06:06Requirements

Section · Administrative Rules of South Dakota · View on sdlegislature.gov ↗

for classroom education. School classroom education requirements are as follows: (1) A school may not require a student to work, be instructed, or earn credit for more than eight hours in a day at the school. However, a school may offer students the option to earn credit for more than eight hours in a day; (2) Cosmetology students must spend 225 hours in classrooms, demonstrations, and practice before performing service on any client of the school; (3) Esthetic students must spend 110 hours in classrooms, demonstrations, and practice before performing service on any client of the school; (4) Nail technology students must spend 60 hours in classrooms, demonstrations, and practice before performing service on any client of the school; (5) A school may not deduct earned clock hours; and (6) A student may not be required to do, or allowed to earn credit for, cleaning unrelated to normal salon duties or maintenance such as washing walls, washing windows, or shoveling snow.

Source: SL 1975, ch 16, § 1; 6 SDR 10, effective August 12, 1979; 12 SDR 151, 12 SDR 155, effective July 1, 1986; 24 SDR 2, effective July 23, 1997; 29 SDR 176, effective July 1, 2003; 33 SDR 226, effective July 1, 2007; 39 SDR 129, effective January 28, 2013; 45 SDR 31, effective September 10, 2018.

General Authority

  • SDCL 36-15-13 ↗
    Amended by HB1165 (2026) — establish basic and advanced esthetics licenses, and to revise the licensure cha
    Amended by HB1194 (2026) — clarify authority for the Cosmetology Commission to credit work experience for e
    Amended by SB27 (2025) — Revise provisions relating to licensing fees for cosmetology, esthetics, and nai
    Amended by HB1016 (2021) — revise the structure and certain fees of the Board of Barber Examiners, the Boar

Law Implemented

  • SDCL 36-15-46 ↗
    Amended by HB1016 (2021) — revise the structure and certain fees of the Board of Barber Examiners, the Boar