# Title 33 — State Department of Health

## Article 33-03 — Public Health Division

## Chapter 33-03-11 — Electronic Hair Removal Technician

### § 33-03-11-01. Definitions.

Words defined in North Dakota Century Code chapter 43-38 have the same meaning in this
chapter, and in addition:
1. "Aseptic technique" means practices that render and keep the skin site and instruments free
from all micro-organisms or contamination.
2. "Department" means the state department of health and consolidated laboratories.
3. "Initial license" means the first license.
4. "Person" means an individual human being.
5. "Relicensure" means any license issued after the initial license.
History: Effective September 25, 1979; amended effective February 1,1992; May 1, 1994.
General Authority: NDCC 43-38-03
Law Implemented: NDCC 43-38-01
### § 33-03-11-02. License required - Fees.

1. A person may not hold oneself out to the public as an electronic hair removal technician
without a license issued by the department.
2. A license may not be sold, assigned, or transferred.
3. The license shall expire midnight on December thirty-first of the year issued. License renewal
shall be on a calendar year basis renewable on January first of each year.
4. The license shall be displayed in a conspicuous place easily viewable by the persons treated.
5. The license fee shall be thirty dollars each for an initial license for the first year or part of a
year.
6. The relicensure fee shall be twenty-five dollars each per year or part of a year.
7. Licenses shall be issued and license fees will be collected on a calendar year basis. License
fees will not be prorated for a partial year.
History: Effective September 25, 1979; amended effective February 1,1992; May 1, 1994.
General Authority: NDCC 43-38-03
Law Implemented: NDCC 43-38-03

### § 33-03-11-03. Application for license.

Application for a license shall be made to the department on forms prescribed by the department.
History: Effective September 25, 1979; amended effective May 1, 1994.
General Authority: NDCC 43-38-03
Law Implemented: NDCC 43-38-03
### § 33-03-11-04. Issuance and renewal of licenses.

1. The state health council shall delegate to the department the authority to manage and
implement the electronic hair removal technician licensure program.
2. Upon receipt of an initial or relicensure application, the department shall evaluate the
applicant's qualifications.
3. If minimum standards described in section 33-03-11-05 are met, the department shall issue a
license.
History: Effective September 25, 1979; amended effective May 1, 1994.
General Authority: NDCC 43-38-03
Law Implemented: NDCC 43-38-02
### § 33-03-11-05. Minimum standards for licensure.

1. An applicant for licensure must meet the minimum standards prescribed by this subsection.
a. The applicant must be at least eighteen years of age.
b. The applicant must have a general education equivalent to the completion of four years
of high school or certificate of general educational development.
c. An electronic hair removal technician must have successfully completed a course in an
electrolysis school which meets the minimum standards as set forth in section
through the use of the electric needle. The applicant must provide one letter of
recommendation for the issuance of a technician license from one instructor
knowledgeable in the electronic hair removal process without the use of an electric
needle.
d. Written procedures for aseptic techniques acceptable to the department must be
developed and implemented by the licensee.
2. Electronic hair removal technicians practicing or holding a license to practice from the North
Dakota board of hairdressers and cosmetologists on June 30, 1979, will be deemed qualified
and will be issued their licenses upon certification from the board as to the existence of such
licenses. All other applicants for a license must document their qualifications for licensure in
accordance with this section.
3. A licensed electronic hair removal technician is not permitted to remove hair with the use of
the electric needle, but is permitted to practice any other method of hair removal.
History: Effective September 25, 1979; amended effective February 1,1992; May 1, 1994.
General Authority: NDCC 43-38-03
Law Implemented: NDCC 43-38-03

### § 33-03-11-06. Denial, suspension, or revocation of license.

The department may deny, suspend, or revoke a license for noncompliance with this chapter.
History: Effective September 25, 1979; amended effective May 1, 1994.
General Authority: NDCC 43-38-03
Law Implemented: NDCC 43-38-03
### § 33-03-11-07. Department - Administration of program.

The department shall administer the licensing program in North Dakota pursuant to subsection 5 of
North Dakota Century Code section 43-38-03.
History: Effective September 25, 1979; amended effective February 1,1992; May 1, 1994.
General Authority: NDCC 43-38-03
Law Implemented: NDCC 23-01-05, 43-38-03
### § 33-03-11-08. Recognition of curriculum.

1. The department will recognize an applicant for a license as eligible for a license when the
applicant has graduated from a school which has provided at a minimum two hundred hours
of training in the following curriculum areas taught by instructors:
a. Practical training in the following branches of electrolysis:
Sanitation and sterilization as applied to electrology
Patron protection
Universal precautions
Use of the electrical currents
Use of equipment and instruments
Precautionary measures to observe before and after treatment
Immediate aftercare
Home care (patron instruction in home care)
Destruction of the papilla
Observation (demonstration and result of work)
Note: At least two-thirds of the hours in this subject shall be in actual performance of
services on another person.
b. Theoretical and practical training in the following:
Ethics, professional conduct
Optional and unassigned hours
c. Theory covering the following subjects:
Sanitation and sterilization as applied to electrology
Universal precautions

Electricity
Dermatology
Trichology
Bacteriology
Study of the peripheral vascular system (capillaries)
Study of the sensory nervous system (nerve endings)
Hygiene
Provisions of the electrolysis law and regulations pertinent to the practice of
electrology.
2. Students enrolled in North Dakota are prohibited to do practical work on patrons outside of
school premises. Practical work may be done by students within the school premises and
under the direct supervision of an instructor.
3. Cosmetology schools in North Dakota teaching the theory of electrolysis to their cosmetology
students as part of the cosmetology curriculum are exempt from the provisions of this chapter.
However, such instructions on electrolysis in a cosmetology school will not be credited toward
the number of hours required in an electrolysis school for licensure purposes.
History: Effective September 25, 1979; amended effective February 1,1992; May 1, 1994.
General Authority: NDCC 43-38-03
Law Implemented: NDCC 43-38-03
### § 33-03-11-09. Curriculum substitution.

In lieu of the course requirements listed in section 33-03-11-08, operators of depilatron and
removatron-type hair removal machines shall be required to complete forty hours of coursework in an
acceptable program designed specifically for the machines which they will be operating. Such
coursework shall be submitted to the department and approved on a case-by-case basis prior to
operator licensure. In addition to these requirements, an operator of a depilatron or removatron-type
hair removal machine shall be a licensed cosmetologist in accordance with North Dakota Century Code
chapter 43-11.
History: Effective February 1, 1983; amended effective May 1, 1994.
General Authority: NDCC 43-38-03
Law Implemented: NDCC 43-38-03
