§ 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.

HISTORY: An. Code 1957, art. 56, § 479, 505; 1989, ch. 3, § 1; 1991, ch. 481.