# Business Occupations and Professions (GBO)

## Title 4. Barbers

### Subtitle 5. Barbershops and Barber Schools

#### Section 4-509

(a) The owner shall designate a master barber to supervise each apprentice barber who is learning to practice barbering or to provide barber-stylist services in the barbershop.

(b) The owner or a designated master barber shall file monthly a report, on a form supplied by the Board, that:

  (1) states the progress of each apprentice barber employed by the barbershop; and

  (2) identifies the master barber supervising each apprentice barber.

(c) The owner and the master barber supervising an apprentice barber immediately shall advise the Board in writing of:

  (1) the date on which an apprentice barber ceases learning to practice barbering or to provide barber-stylist services at the barbershop, temporarily or permanently; and

  (2) the reason for the cessation.

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Md. Code Ann., Bus. Occ. & Prof. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)