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The following fees shall be assessed by the board for each initial certificate of registration and each annual renewal of such certificate: (a) Cosmetologist, esthetician, manicurist, teacher/instructor, or manager $35.00 (b) Beauty shop or salon, mobile salon, or home care $55.00 (c) Initial inspection fee for salon, mobile salon, or booth rental $50.00 (d) Booth rental permit, special permit, or temporary permit $50.00
La. Rev. Stat. §37:599(A)(2) · verified Sep 7, 2026 · regulatory monitoring, not legal advice
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The licensure of all persons who perform cosmetology, the licensure of all facilities where cosmetology is taught within the state, the licensure of all facilities where cosmetology services are offered within the state, and the licensure of all persons who supervise individuals performing cosmetology within the state are declared to be necessary to ensure that only qualified persons be permitted to engage in the practice of cosmetology at facilities meeting appropriate standards.
La. Rev. Stat. §37:562(C) · verified Sep 3, 2026
"Beauty shop" or "salon" means any premises upon or within which cosmetology is practiced for a fee. These terms shall not include the premises wherein any of the persons exempted in R.S. 37:581 practice or do business.
La. Rev. Stat. §37:563(1) · verified Sep 3, 2026
"Cosmetology" means the practice of using one's hands, mechanical or electrical apparatuses, or appliances or using cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, soaps, detergents, tonics, lotions, or creams in any one or any combination of the practices of esthetics, hair dressing, and manicuring for compensation, direct or indirect, including tips.
La. Rev. Stat. §37:563(6)(a) · verified Sep 3, 2026
"Esthetics" means engaging in any one or a combination of the following practices: massaging the face or neck of a person, dyeing or trimming eyebrows, applying natural or artificial enhancements to eyelashes, hair removal by cosmetic preparations, threading, waxing, or other similar means, stimulating, cleansing, or beautifying the face, neck, arms, bust, upper body, legs, or feet of a person by any method with the aid of the hands or of any mechanical or electrical apparatus, including micro-dermabrasion, epidermabrasion, or particle exfoliation.
La. Rev. Stat. §37:563(8) · verified Sep 3, 2026
If a registrant wishes to restore an expired certificate listed in Paragraph (2) of this Subsection within three years from the date of expiration, he shall be assessed a fee equal to twice the applicable fee for each year the certificate was expired, not to exceed three hundred dollars.
La. Rev. Stat. §37:599(A)(3) · verified Sep 7, 2026
⛔ LOUISIANA EXCLUDES COPIES OF A COMMERCIAL PRODUCT FROM COMPOUNDING BY DEFINITION, AND SEMAGLUTIDE AND TIRZEPATIDE ARE COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE PRODUCTS. Compounding does not include the compounding of drug products that are essentially copies of a commercially available product.
La. Admin. Code tit. 46, pt. LIII, § 2533(A) (Definitions — Compounding; ⛔ copies of a commercially available product are NOT compounding) · verified Sep 7, 2026
Compounding―the preparation, mixing, assembling, packaging, or labeling of a drug or device by a pharmacist for his patient as the result of a practitioner's prescription drug order or initiative based on the practitioner/patient/pharmacist relationship in the course of professional practice, or including the preparation of drugs or devices in anticipation of prescription orders to be received by the compounding pharmacist based on routine, regularly observed prescribing patterns.
La. Admin. Code tit. 46, pt. LIII, § 2533(A) (Definitions — Compounding) · verified Sep 7, 2026
Practitioner Administered Compounds―products compounded by a licensed pharmacist, upon the medical order of a licensed prescriber for administration by a prescriber for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes.
La. Admin. Code tit. 46, pt. LIII, § 2533(A) (Definitions — Practitioner Administered Compounds) · verified Sep 7, 2026
Copies of commercial drug products contain the same active pharmaceutical ingredient(s) in the same, similar, or easily substitutable dosage strength which can be used by the same route of administration. Changes in strength of less than 10 percent from the commercial drug product shall not be considered significant enough to warrant the preparation of a copy of a commercial drug product. In the event a prescriber determines a change in the formulation of a commercial drug product is necessary to produce a significant clinical difference for the patient and that determination is documented on the prescription, the pharmacy may prepare a variation of the commercial drug product, provided: the pharmacy does not prepare copies of commercial drug products regularly or in inordinate amounts.
La. Admin. Code tit. 46, pt. LIII, § 2535(F)(1) (Compounding Copies of Commercial Drug Products) · verified Sep 7, 2026
A pharmacy may prepare a copy of a commercial drug product when that product has been discontinued and is no longer marketed, or the product appears on the drug shortage list maintained by the federal Food and Drug Administration, or the product is temporarily unavailable as demonstrated by invoice or other communication from the distributor or manufacturer.
La. Admin. Code tit. 46, pt. LIII, § 2535(F)(2) (Compounding Copies of Commercial Drug Products) · verified Sep 7, 2026
These requirements are intended to apply to all compounded preparations, sterile and non-sterile, regardless of the location of the patient, e.g., home, hospital, nursing home, hospice, or practitioner’s office.
La. Admin. Code tit. 46, pt. LIII, § 2531(B) (Purpose and Scope) · verified Sep 7, 2026
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