Instructor qualifications.
Ark. Code Ann. § 17-26-410
in effect(a)(1)(A) A person employed in a school to instruct students in the school shall be licensed as an instructor in the field in which he or she specializes.
(B) A licensed instructor in good standing is not required to renew his or her specialty license.
(2) A licensed instructor shall:
(A) Be twenty-one (21) years of age or older and have had six hundred (600) hours of teacher training in a school of cosmetology;
(B) Have passed an instructor's written examination given by the Department of Health, a practical examination administered by the school, and have received an instructor's license; and
(C) Have received not less than eight (8) hours of additional training in an instructor's training seminar or continuing education course certified by the department.
(b) A licensed instructor shall not teach outside the profession in which the license to practice allows.
(c) A cosmetology school shall offer an education in cosmetology regardless of whether the curriculum includes a specialty course.
Source: Public.Resource.Org / UniCourt, Official Code of Arkansas Annotated, Release 78 (2020) (unicourt.github.io/cic-code-ar)URL: https://unicourt.github.io/cic-code-ar/transforms/ar/ocar/r78/gov.ar.code.title.17.htmlFetched: 11/8/2026