Barbers and cosmetologists.

(a) Students of cosmetology or barbering in Escambia County who have completed 250 hours of study in a registered school of cosmetology or barbering may work in a duly registered beauty shop or barber shop during non-school hours.

(b)(1) Any person who has served as an apprentice in a barber shop under a master barber for not less than 3,000 hours within a minimum period of one year shall be granted a barber's license by the Alabama Board of Barber Examiners, provided he or she possesses and has met all the qualifications for receiving such license as prescribed by Section 34-5-5, not in conflict with this subsection.

(2) Barbers and cosmetologists may work in the same shop in Escambia County.

(3) This subsection is supplemental and insofar as possible it shall be construed in pari materia with other laws regulating and providing for licensing of the practice of barbering; nevertheless all laws and parts of such laws in conflict herewith are repealed.

(Acts 1978, No. 613, p. 872, §1; Acts 1978, No. 829, p. 1232, §1; Act 81-1129, 3rd Sp. Sess., p. 394, §§1-3.)