Georgia Barber Law, Board Rules, and Professional Ethics
The regulatory frame
Barbering in Georgia is regulated by the State Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists, administered through the Professional Licensing Boards Division of the Georgia Secretary of State. The board's rules set licensure tiers, scope of practice, sanitation standards, shop requirements, inspection, and discipline. Read the current rules directly rather than memorizing secondhand numbers, because hour requirements, continuing-education hours, and fees change; exam items test the principle and the source, and prep materials can go stale.
What a license actually means
A license is a limited permission to practice within a defined scope. Working outside that scope - performing a service your license tier does not cover, or letting an unlicensed person perform services in your shop - is grounds for discipline even when the work itself was done well. Licenses and shop licenses must be current and displayed as the rules require, and a shop must be ready to pass inspection at any time: disinfectant at the correct dilution, closed storage, SDS on hand, sanitation records kept.
Ethics in practice
Ethics items usually have one defensible answer: protect the client. That means informed consent before chemical services, confidentiality of anything learned in the chair, honest advertising without guarantees of results, no diagnosis of disease, refusal of service when a condition or the client's health makes it unsafe, and clear disclosure of price before starting. Continuing a service after an adverse reaction, or charging for work you cannot safely complete, is both an ethical and a legal problem.
Rule of thumb: in a gray-area question, pick the answer that protects the client's health and public safety first, then the one that follows the rule as written.