The following activities are prohibited in any barber shop or in regard to any shop-sponsored services:
- A. The performance of services of any kind on a client who has an infectious or contagious disease that presents a hazard to others;
- B. The performance of services of any kind by a licensee or registrant who has an infectious or contagious disease that presents a hazard to clients;
- C. The performance of services of any kind upon the surface of a client's skin or scalp, where the skin or scalp is inflamed or where a skin infection or eruption is present, unless authorized by a physician;
- D. The removal of corns, calluses, or other growths of the skin, such as warts, by cutting;
- E. The presence of a dog, cat, bird, or any kind of animal on the shop premises with the exception of guide dogs for the blind;
- F. The sale of any hairpieces which previously have been worn including, but not limited to wigs, toupees, wiglets, falls, and switches;
- G. The integration of any other business unless the other business is separated from the barber shop by a permanent partition or wall that goes from floor to ceiling.
Authority: Business Occupations and Professions Article, Title 4, Annotated Code of Maryland
Effective date: August 3, 1992 (19:15 Md. R. 1389)
Regulation .01 amended effective October 8, 2018 (45:20 Md. R. 918)
Regulation .02B, C amended effective May 31, 1999 (26:11 Md. R. 854)
Regulation .04B amended effective May 31, 1999 (26:11 Md. R. 854); May 29, 2000 (27:10 Md. R. 966)
Regulation .05 adopted effective November 5, 2007 (34:22 Md. R. 1976)