1. (a) An owner or lessee of a beauty salon may not knowingly:

   1. (1) employ in the beauty salon an individual with an infectious or contagious disease that presents a hazard to a patron; or
   2. (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.

2. (b)

   1. (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. (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.

3. (c) An individual may not practice cosmetology in a careless or negligent manner so as to:

   1. (1) cause an infection; or
   2. (2) impart an infectious or contagious disease that presents a hazard to a beauty salon patron.

Added by Acts 1989, c. 3, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1989. Amended by Acts 1991 c. 481.

Formerly Art. 56, §§ 479, 505.