37-30-307. Fees -- handicapped persons exempted -- other fees prohibited. (1) The fee to be paid by an applicant for an examination to determine the applicant's fitness to receive a certificate of registration to practice barbering and for the issuance of the certificate must be prescribed by the board.
     (2) A person registered as a barber shall, before the expiration date established by rule of the department, annually pay a license fee, set by the board based on clerical and administrative costs, for the renewal of the person's certificate of registration. If a barber fails to have the certificate renewed before the expiration date, the barber shall on renewal of the certificate of registration pay a penalty prescribed by the board in addition to the regular renewal fee. If a certificate of registration is not renewed within 1 year after the date of expiration, the barber is not entitled to have the certificate of registration renewed or a new certificate of registration issued without first applying for and taking the examination and paying the fees provided for in this section.
     (3) However, physically handicapped persons trained for the barber profession by the department of public health and human services and certified by that department as having graduated from a barber college licensed by the board are not required to pay fees and are for a period of 1 year immediately following their training exempt from all except the sanitary provisions of this chapter.
     (4) Another or an additional license or fee may not be imposed on barbers by a municipality or other subdivision of this state.

     History: En. Sec. 11, Ch. 127, L. 1929; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 18, L. 1931; re-en. Sec. 3228.29, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 183, L. 1937; amd. Sec. 6, Ch. 150, L. 1939; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 237, L. 1957; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 48, L. 1969; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 87, L. 1971; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 301, L. 1973; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 330, L. 1973; amd. Sec. 43, Ch. 350, L. 1974; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 533, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 66-411(1), (2); amd. Sec. 52, Ch. 345, L. 1981; amd. Sec. 6, Ch. 390, L. 1983; amd. Sec. 5, Ch. 565, L. 1983; amd. Sec. 7, Ch. 274, L. 1985; amd. Sec. 94, Ch. 546, L. 1995.