                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

EXEMPTIONS (§ 54.1-701)

The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to:

1. Persons authorized by the laws of the Commonwealth to practice medicine and
surgery or osteopathy or chiropractic;

2. Registered nurses licensed to practice in the Commonwealth;

3. Persons employed in state or local penal or correctional institutions,
rehabilitation centers, sanatoria, or institutions for care and treatment of
individuals with mental illness or intellectual disability, or for care and
treatment of geriatric patients, as barbers, cosmetologists, wax technicians,
nail technicians, estheticians, barber instructors, cosmetology instructors, wax
technician instructors, nail technician instructors, or esthetics instructors
who practice only on inmates of or patients in such sanatoria or institutions;

4. Persons licensed as funeral directors or embalmers in the Commonwealth;

5. Gratuitous services as a barber, nail technician, cosmetologist, wax
technician, tattooer, body-piercer, ear-piercer, or esthetician;

6. Students enrolled in an approved school taking a course in barbering, nail
care, cosmetology, waxing, tattooing, body-piercing, ear-piercing, or esthetics;

7. Persons working in a cosmetology salon whose duties are expressly confined to
the blow drying, arranging, dressing, curling, or cleansing of human hair;

8. Apprentices serving in a barbershop, nail salon, waxing salon, cosmetology
salon, ear-piercing salon, or esthetics spa licensed by the Board in accordance
with the Board&#8217;s regulations;

9. Schools of barbering, nail care, waxing, or cosmetology in public schools;
and

10. Persons whose activities are confined solely to applying make-up, including
such activities that are ancillary to applying make-up.

HISTORY: 1962, c. 639, § 4, § 54-83.5; 1968, c. 622; 1988, c. 765; 2000, c.
726; 2002, cc. 797, 869; 2003, c. 600; 2005, c. 829; 2012, cc. 476, 507, 803,
835; 2018, c. 404; 2025, cc. 308, 322.