Morgan County Barbers' Commission

Morgan County Barbers' Commission License

Morgan County runs its own independent barber-licensing body, the Morgan County Barbers' Commission, a real and still-codified board of 3 Governor-appointed commissioners, each a Morgan County resident of 3 or more years with 5 or more years of barbering experience, serving staggered terms with vacancies filled by a nomination-ballot process among licensed barbers. This is the third such independent Alabama county barber commission recorded on this site, after Jefferson County's and Mobile County's. Its fee schedule under Ala. Code §45-52-30.05 charges $20.00 for the original/annual-renewal barber, apprentice-barber or barber-instructor license, $30.00 for each examination, and $1,000.00 for the original/annual-renewal barber college or school license, with a $10.00 restoration fee for a license lapsed 2 years or less, an exemption from the $20.00 renewal fee for licensees 65 or older with 5 or more years of prior licensure, and a 25% late-renewal penalty after January 31. Its licensing reach is countywide, including inside every incorporated city such as Decatur and Hartselle, not only the unincorporated county: neither §45-52-30 (the license requirement) nor §45-52-30.01 (definitions) contains any language distinguishing incorporated municipalities from unincorporated territory anywhere across all 8 sections of the article, unlike the explicit 'outside the corporate limits of any municipality' language some other Alabama county ordinances use when a narrower scope is intended. A nonparticipating barbering employee is exempt from this licensure requirement but must still hold a valid health permit.