STATE OF NEW YORK
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8382
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
September 11, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Economic Development
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to defining the
practice of esthetics to include eyebrow threading services
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 400 of the general business law,
2 as added by chapter 509 of the laws of 1992, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 6. The practice of "esthetics" means providing for a fee, or any
5 consideration or exchange, whether direct or indirect, services to
6 enhance the appearance of the face, neck, arms, legs, and shoulders of a
7 human being by the use of compounds or procedures including makeup,
8 eyelashes, depilatories, tonics, lotions, waxes, sanding [and], tweezing
9 and eyebrow threading, whether performed by manual, mechanical, chemical
10 or electrical means and instruments but shall not include the practice
11 of electrology.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
13 have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediately, the
14 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
15 for the implementation of this act on its effective date is authorized
16 and directed to be made and completed on or before such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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