New Mexico Register / Volume XXIX, Issue 12 / June 26, 2018

This is an amendment to 16.34.6 NMAC, Sections 2 and 8, effective 07/14/2018.

16.34.6.2 SCOPE: All barbers, cosmetologists, hairstylists, estheticians, manicurist/pedicurists, manicurist/ estheticians, instructors and electrologists licensed out-of-state.

[16.34.6.2 NMAC - Rp 16 NMAC 34.6.2, 06/16/2001; A, 07/14/2018]

16.34.6.8 RECIPROCITY

A. An applicant for licensure by reciprocity must meet all the requirements of the act and applicable rules.

B. Credit for work experience. Applicants who have not completed a course of study equivalent to the license for which he/she is applying may submit notarized letters of employment or employment records to prove licensed, current, verified work experience. Six full months of work experience will equal 150 hours of training. Work experience less than six full months will not be considered toward training hours. To obtain any license by reciprocity, no more than fifty percent of the hours required for licensure by in-state applicants may be obtained by work experience.

C. Full hours or work experience, out-of-state license. Any person who seeks licensure in the state of New Mexico through reciprocity from any other state shall:

(1) furnish an affidavit from the state regulatory agency verifying that the applicant holds a current license and is in good standing with the state;

(2) furnish a certified transcript for the course of study [or affidavit of hours from the regulatory agency or school attended in the state from which the applicant is applying] if hours completed are not included in the affidavit from the state regulatory agency;

(3) complete the application for reciprocity on a form provided by the board and submit the required fee: [and]

(4) furnish notarized letters of employment from past employers or employment records to prove work experience as stated in B of this section, if [needed] hours are not equivalent to New Mexico; and

(5) all documents submitted to the board office must be in English; documents submitted in a language other than English must be accompanied by a certified translation approved by the American translators association (ATA).

D. Foreign training. All foreign trained applicants must submit to the applicable examination. Refer to 16.34.3 NMAC for requirements.

E. Incomplete hours, out of state license.

(1) An applicant who holds a valid license in another state and who needs additional training not in excess of 100 hours may obtain the training hours in any state. Upon submitting proof of having acquired the additional training hours, the applicant may then be licensed through reciprocity.

(2) An applicant licensed in a state where the course of study is not equivalent to New Mexico’s may apply work experience or apprenticeship training hours, on a case by case basis, toward the training requirements as stated in Subsection B of 16.34.6.8 NMAC, provided these hours do not exceed fifty percent of the required hours in New Mexico. If the allowed hours credited from work experience or apprenticeship training meet or exceed the equivalent of the New Mexico course of study, the applicant may obtain licensure through reciprocity.

(3) An applicant who cannot obtain a license through reciprocity with the previous training and work experience, he will be required to obtain approval of the previous hours of training as stated in Subsection I of 16.34.6.8 NMAC, obtain the additional hours needed and submit to the New Mexico licensing examination applicable to the license he is seeking.

F. In order to expedite the process of approving training hours and work experience for reciprocity applicants and transfer students, the board executive director may forward the required documents to a member of the board who is also a licensee for approval.

G. Prior to licensure the applicant shall take and pass a board approved jurisprudence examination. The applicant must pass the jurisprudence exam with a minimum score of seventy-five percent or greater.

[16.34.6.8 NMAC - Rp 16 NMAC 34.6.8, 06/16/2001; A, 10/04/2007; A, 04/12/10; A, 12/17/2015; A, 10/29/2016; A, 07/14/2018]