Section 43-7-9. General powers and duties of board

   The board shall:

   (1) Prepare and approve all examinations of applicants for licenses;

   (2) Determine the qualifications of and license barbers, barber teachers, barber apprentices, and persons operating barbershops and barber schools to engage in these respective activities;

   (3) Regulate the practice of barbering, teaching of barbering, barbers, barber teachers, barber apprentices, and persons operating barbershops and barber schools;

   (4) Investigate alleged violations of this chapter and any other law of this state pertaining to barbering and any rules and regulations adopted by the board; and, in order to facilitate this duty, any board member or inspector shall have the power and right to enter into and make reasonable inspection of any barbershop or barber school during regular business hours;

   (5) Conduct hearings in accordance with Chapter 13 of Title 50, the "Georgia Administrative Procedure Act"; and, in order to facilitate this duty, the board and the division director shall have the power to subpoena throughout the state witnesses, designated documents, papers, books, accounts, letters, photographs, objects, or other tangible things;

   (6) Reprimand any person, or suspend, revoke, or cancel the license of, or refuse to grant, renew, or restore a license to any person upon any ground specified in this chapter;

   (7) Adopt a seal, the imprint of which, together with the authorized signature of either the division director or any other member authorized by the board, shall be effective to evidence its official acts;

   (8) Maintain in the office of the division director a register of all persons holding a license and maintain a record of all inspections made for a period of two years; and

   (9) Adopt such rules and regulations as shall be reasonably necessary for the enforcement and implementation of the provisions and purposes of this chapter and other laws of this state insofar as they relate to barbering, including, but not limited to, rules and regulations prescribing requirements for sanitation in barbershops and barber schools when these rules have been approved by the Board of Public Health.

Ga. L. 1914, p. 75, §§ 4, 6, 8, 13; Code 1933, §§ 84-404, 84-407, 84-408, 84-411; Ga. L. 1956, p. 316, § 3; Ga. L. 1963, p. 56, § 4; Ga. L. 1965, p. 603, § 3; Ga. L. 1971, p. 870, § 11; Ga. L. 1973, p. 1450, § 11; Ga. L. 1992, p. 2765, § 2; Ga. L. 2000, p. 1706, § 19; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 1-5/HB 228; Ga. L. 2011, p. 705, § 6-4/HB 214.