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317A.130 Sanitation requirements and prohibited practices.
No instructor, student, cosmetologist, apprentice, or nail technician shall:
(1) Fail to provide the head rest of each chair with a relaundered towel or a sheet of
clean paper for each person;
(2) 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;
(3) Use on one (1) patron a towel that has been used upon another patron, unless the
towel has been relaundered;
(4) Use on any patron any razor, scissors, tweezers, comb, bowl, recirculating pipes,
rubber disc, or part of vibrator or other similar equipment or appliance that comes
into contact with the head, face, hands, feet, or neck of a patron, until the equipment
or appliance has been immersed in boiling water for ten (10) minutes or in a
sterilizing solution and placed in a wet or dry sterilizer until again used. Only those
methods of sterilization that are bacteriologically effective and approved by the
Department for Public Health shall be used; or
(5) Use on any patron a liquid nail enhancement product containing monomeric methyl
methacrylate, also known as dental acrylic monomer, for the purpose of creating
artificial nail enhancements in the practice of cosmetology and nail technology.
Effective: July 12, 2012
History: Amended 2012 Ky. Acts ch. 152, sec. 12, effective July 12, 2012. -- 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 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
officers whose names have been changed in the Act, as it confirms the establishment
of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. Such a correction has been made in
this section.
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