Jefferson County Barber Commission

Jefferson County Barber Commission Barbershop License

Jefferson County has run its own barber-licensing body separately from the state since 1951, and it is still the operative authority today: Ala. Code §34-7B-13(7) exempts any county or municipal barber board or commission that already existed on August 1, 2013 from the 2013 statewide consolidation into the Alabama Board of Cosmetology and Barbering, unless that commission's governing body adopts a resolution to opt in — and the Jefferson County Barber Commission continues to publish its own laws, rules and fees as the licensing body. JCBC's own published Barbering Code of Law confines the license requirement to barbershops, barber colleges, barbers, apprentice barbers, barber teachers and scalp specialists, and expressly does not apply to the practice of 'beauty culture', so general hair, nail and esthetics salons remain under the state cosmetology board. JCBC's own current published fee page states a $75 original shop-license fee and a $20 annual individual renewal fee; the codified statute at Ala. Code §45-37-40.04, last amended in 2002, states different figures for those same two items — a $50 shop original fee and a $40 individual renewal — that do not match JCBC's current practice. The figures shown are JCBC's own current published figures, as what a barbershop is charged today, since that is the administering body's own live public statement of its fees; the shop's $2-per-chair annual renewal, its $35 individual original fee and its $250-a-year barber college fee are the same figures in both the statute and JCBC's own page.