Section 5-607 - Infectious or contagious diseases. - Maryland Statutes

§ 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.]