And the State Strikes Back

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wirev

New member
Donations accepted----he isn't charging anything. If he has good customers, they will take care of him.
 

frnash

Active member
You didn't think Whitmer was going to let the Owosso barber go unchallenged did you?

The State just suspended his license to cut hair.
https://www.abc12.com/content/news/State-suspends-Owosso-barbers-license-to-cut-hair-570435251.html

Maybe he will continue to cut hair for free. I think you only need a license if you charge to cut hair. Anybody can cut hair.
https://blogs.findlaw.com/law_and_life/2015/01/is-it-legal-to-charge-friends-for-haircuts.html
Yes, the rules & regulations vary from one jurisdiction to another and although not quite the crazy quilt as liquor laws and licensing, they can be quite crazy. For example:

1. From the Arizona State Board of Barbers, Rules:
R4-5-305. Display of Barber Pole
A. Under A.R.S. § 32-355(A)(4), it is unlawful to display a sign or advertise as being engaged in the practice or business of barbering without being licensed under A.R.S. Title 32, Chapter 3, and this Chapter.
B. The Board has trademarked through the Office of the Secretary of State the barber pole as a sign of the barbering business.
C. A business shall not display a barber pole unless a barber licensed under A.R.S. Title 32, Chapter 3, and this Chapter is available to provide barbering services during the business hours that the barber pole is displayed.
2. From the Arizona Revised Statutes (ARS)
ARS32-321. Nonapplicability of chapter
This chapter does not apply to the following persons while in the proper discharge of their professional duties:
1. Medical practitioners licensed pursuant to this title who treat physical or mental ailments or disease.
2. Persons who perform services without compensation in case of emergency or in domestic administration.
[Definition, from R4-5-101:
Domestic administration” means barbering performed:
――On oneself, or
――On another person to whom the practitioner is related as follows:
――Father,
――Mother,
――Grandfather,
――Grandmother,
――Child,
――Step-child,
――Brother,
――Sister,
――Foster parent,
――Legal guardian,
――Step-parent, or
――Spouse.]
3. Commissioned physicians and surgeons serving in the armed forces of the United States or other federal agencies.
4. Students attending schools licensed pursuant to this chapter while they are on school premises during school hours.
5. Persons licensed pursuant to chapter 5 or 12 of this title.
6. Shampoo assistants who shampoo hair under the direction of a barber licensed pursuant to this chapter.
7. Persons who are in the custody of the state department of corrections and who perform services for persons in the custody of the state department of corrections.
8. Persons who are participating in a department of economic security-approved apprenticeship program in barbering as described in section 32-322 while working with a mentor in an establishment that is licensed by the board.
So it looks like one can do barbering in AZ without a license only for specifically designated clients, but you can't display a sign or advertise, or operate in an establishment displaying a "barber pole"!
Yet anyone "in the custody of the AZDOC" can do barbering without a license for anyone else so situated.

Ya gotta wonder if the present COVID19 situation would qualify for the "in case of emergency" loophole in accordance with the above. :indecisiveness:
(I had to look that up 'cuz I vaguely remembered from ages ago in some jurisdiction that one could not do any barbering, and technically couldn't even cut your own hair without being licensed!)
 

pclark

Well-known member
She is just wicked, sorry you guys in Michigan have to deal with her likes. Hopefully your state can overturn like Wisconsin did today.

Keep fighting!
 

whitedust

Well-known member
Wow! Whitner has no common sense at all. Talk about being a bully she takes the the championship belt for being a harda$$ doesn’t know when to stand down. Worst PR EVER!
 

Skylar

Super Moderator
Staff member
Shutting down one older gentleman's barber shop. Yea, she is such a bad ***. That will make her look awesome in her next main stream media interview. She showed him!
 

mezz

Well-known member
"Wicked" is a kind way of putting it, but thanks.

That is a fact, and it is too kind of a way to put it!:disturbed: All the $ going into this issue is taking away from every 2018 flood repair project that was suppose to be completed as well as a good chunk of our snowmobile/atv trails, road fixes etc.. IMO she is a wicked f&$%@* pile of dung, I can't even stand to hear her voice much less look at her anymore!:livid: -Mezz
 
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