Any person desiring to obtain a certificate of registration shall make application to the board therefor, pay to the secretary thereof a fee, as determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven and furnish to the board a certificate of a registered physician as to the freedom of the applicant from infectious and contagious diseases, and shall present himself at the next regular meeting of the board for the examination of applicants, or at a later meeting of the board if it so votes, and thereupon, if he shows that he has studied and practiced the occupation of barbering for two years as an apprentice under one or more registered barbers, or for at least six months in a properly equipped and conducted barber school or barber college under the instruction of a registered barber and eighteen months as an apprentice under a registered barber, or practiced such occupation for at least two years in this and/or other states, and that he is possessed of the requisite skill in such occupation to perform properly all the duties thereof, including the preparation of the tools, shaving, haircutting and all the duties and services incident thereto, and has sufficient knowledge concerning diseases of the face and skin to avoid the aggravation and spreading of such diseases in the practice of such occupation, the board shall issue to him a certificate of registration, signed by the chairman and the secretary and attested by its seal. Such certificate shall be evidence that the person to whom it is issued shall, subject to section eighty-seven J, be entitled to follow the practice of the occupation referred to therein.
