Section 5-607 - Infectious or Contagious Diseases

(a) An owner or lessee of a beauty salon may not knowingly: (1) employ in the beauty salon an individual with an infectious or contagious disease that presents a hazard to a patron; or (2) after discovering an individual has an infectious or contagious disease that presents a hazard to a patron, continue to employ the individual in the beauty salon. (b) (1) An individual who knows that the individual has an infectious or contagious disease that presents a hazard to a beauty salon patron may not practice cosmetology. (2) An individual who knows that another individual has an infectious or contagious disease that presents a hazard to a beauty salon patron may not practice cosmetology on that other individual. (c) An individual may not practice cosmetology in a careless or negligent manner so as to: (1) cause an infection; or (2) impart an infectious or contagious disease that presents a hazard to a beauty salon patron.