What are the license fees to open a med spa in South Dakota?
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Seventy-five dollars for the salon or booth license, fifty-five to renew — plus the practitioner's own $120 exam and initial license fee ($45 renewal), and an optional $75 pre-opening inspection; the cited rules cover only these cosmetology fees.
South Dakota writes its fees in words rather than figures, which is why a search for dollar signs finds nothing and the schedule looks absent. (12) Salon or booth initial license fee, seventy-five dollars ; (13) Salon or booth license renewal fee, fifty-five dollars Opening a salon or booth costs seventy-five dollars and renewing it fifty-five — the premises charge, separate from the practitioner’s own license.
S.D. Admin. R. 20:42:03:03(12)-(13) (what it costs to open — the salon license, in the Commission’s own rule) · verified Sep 6, 2026 · regulatory monitoring, not legal advice
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The practitioner half is charged separately and is the larger of the two at entry. (1) Examination and initial license fee , one hundred twenty dollars with renewal at forty-five dollars, so a single-operator salon pays both the premises fee and the practitioner fee to open.
S.D. Admin. R. 20:42:03:03(1),(3) (the practitioner license a studio also pays) · verified Sep 6, 2026
And an operator can buy certainty before committing to premises. (17) Inspection fee for a prospective salon or booth at the request of the prospective applicant, seventy-five dollars for each inspection — a prospective applicant may have the site inspected before licensure, at the same seventy-five dollars as the license itself.
S.D. Admin. R. 20:42:03:03(17) (a pre-opening inspection can be requested, and is charged) · verified Sep 6, 2026
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