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⛔ MAINE CAPS THE COST OF ENTRY IN STATUTE AND THE CEILING IS LOW. The Director of the Office of Professional and Occupational Regulation within the department may establish by rule fees for purposes authorized under this chapter in amounts that are reasonable and necessary for their respective purposes, except that the fee for licensure of a school may not exceed $500 and the fee for any other purpose may not exceed $100. Every barbering and cosmetology license fee other than a school is capped at $100, with the actual figure set by rule beneath that ceiling — so an operator should treat $100 as the most any single license can cost, not the price.

32 M.R.S. § 14238 (⛔ what it costs to open — a statutory CEILING of $100 for anything but a school) · verified Sep 6, 2026 · regulatory monitoring, not legal advice

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  • ⛔ MAINE ENUMERATES WHAT COMPOUNDING MAY BE FOR, AND THE ONLY NON-PATIENT-SPECIFIC LIMB IS VETERINARY. "Compounding" means the preparation, mixing, assembling, packaging or labeling of a drug or device by a pharmacist: A. For the pharmacist's patient for dispensing as the result of a practitioner's prescription drug order; The act is a pharmacist's to begin with, and limb A ties it to that pharmacist's own patient against a prescription order.

    32 M.R.S. § 13702-A(4) (⛔ compounding is a PHARMACIST’s act, and every limb is patient-specific but one) · verified Sep 6, 2026

  • Anticipatory preparation is permitted and carries the patient tie with it. C. In anticipation of prescription drug orders to be received by the pharmacist based on routine, regularly observed prescribing patterns for the pharmacist's patient; Stock held ahead of the order must still be for the pharmacist's patient, so anticipation does not open a non-patient-specific route.

    32 M.R.S. § 13702-A(4)(C) (anticipatory stock is allowed — for the pharmacist’s patient) · verified Sep 6, 2026

  • ⛔ AND THE ONE LIMB THAT DROPS THE PATIENT TIE IS ANIMAL MEDICINE, WHICH IS THE ANSWER A MED SPA NEEDS. D. For nonpatient-specific drugs for distribution to licensed veterinarians for veterinarian office use for nonfood-producing animals, as that term is defined in board rule. Office use appears once in this definition and it is veterinary. Nothing enumerated here reaches nonpatient-specific supply to a human clinic — an operator relying on office stock is outside the four limbs, on this section's own terms.

    32 M.R.S. § 13702-A(4)(D) (⛔ the ONE nonpatient-specific limb is for VETERINARIANS) · verified Sep 6, 2026

  • A person, firm, corporation or other legal entity may not provide services in, operate or cause to be operated a level 1 establishment or a level 2 establishment where cosmetology, barber hair styling, hair design, nail technology or aesthetics is practiced unless that establishment has been licensed by the director. A level 1 establishment license or a level 2 establishment license issued pursuant to this subsection authorizes the operation of an establishment only at the location for which the license is issued.

    32 M.R.S. §14224(2) · verified Sep 3, 2026

  • A person may not practice cosmetology, barber hair styling, hair design, nail technology or aesthetics or act as a trainee in this State unless that person has first obtained a license as provided in this chapter.

    32 M.R.S. §14224(1) · verified Sep 3, 2026

  • “The practice of aesthetics” means the performance by any person for hire or compensation of beautifying, massaging, cleansing, stimulating, toning, or exercising the skin of the human body by the use of cosmetic preparations, tonics, lotions, creams, antiseptics or clays or any device, electrical or otherwise, for the care of the skin; applying makeup or eyelashes to any person; or trimming or tinting eyebrows and eyelashes. The practice of aesthetics under this subsection does not include the diagnosis, treatment or therapy of any dermatological condition.

    32 M.R.S. §14202(7) · verified Sep 3, 2026

  • “Mobile establishment” means a mobile vehicle or mobile structure designed, constructed or adapted to serve as an establishment at a number of sites and capable of being readily moved from any site at any time.

    32 M.R.S. §14202(6) · verified Sep 3, 2026

  • The prohibitions and penalties of this chapter do not apply to persons authorized by law of this State to practice medicine and surgery and persons under the supervision and control of those persons, when acting within the scope of their profession or occupation.

    32 M.R.S. §14203(1)(A) · verified Sep 3, 2026

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