2010 Maryland Code
BUSINESS OCCUPATIONS AND PROFESSIONS
TITLE 5 - COSMETOLOGISTS
Subtitle 6 - Prohibited Acts; Penalties
Section 5-607 - Infectious or contagious diseases.
§ 5-607. Infectious or contagious diseases.
(a) Restrictions on employees with disease.- 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) Other individuals with disease.-
(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) Careless or negligent practice.- 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.
[An. Code 1957, art. 56, §§ 479, 505; 1989, ch. 3, § 1; 1991, ch. 481.]
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