2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 317A COSMETOLOGISTS
317A.130 Sanitation requirements and prohibited practices.

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Page 1 of 1 317A.130 Sanitation requirements and prohibited practices. No instructor, student, cosmetologist, apprentice, or nail technician shall: <br>(1) Knowingly continue to practice while he has an infectious or communicable disease; (2) Fail to provide the head rest of each chair with a relaundered towel or a sheet of clean paper for each person; (3) Fail to place around the patron's neck a strip of cotton, towel, or neck strip so that the haircloth does not come in contact with the patron's skin; (4) Use on one (1) patron a towel that has been used upon another patron, unless the towel has been relaundered; (5) Use on any patron any razor, scissors, tweezers, comb, sachet, rubber disc, or part of vibrator or other similar equipment or appliance that comes into contact with the <br>head, face, hands, or neck of a patron, until the equipment or appliance has been <br>immersed in boiling water for ten (10) minutes or in a sterilizing solution and <br>placed in a wet or dry sterilizer until again used. Only those methods of sterilization <br>that are bacteriologically effective and approved by the Department for Public <br>Health shall be used; or (6) Use on any patron a liquid nail enhancement product containing monomeric methyl methacrylate, also known as dental acrylic monomer, for the purpose of creating <br>artificial nail enhancements in the practice of cosmetology and nail technology. Effective: July 15, 1998 <br>History: Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 437, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 82, sec. 6, effective July 15, 1996. -- Created 1974 Ky. Acts <br>ch. 354, sec. 13. Legislative Research Commission Note (7/12/2006). 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 675, instructs the Reviser of Statutes to correct statutory references to agencies and <br>officers whose names have been changed in the Act, as it confirms the establishment <br>of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. Such a correction has been made in <br>this section.

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