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KRS 317.580

Sanitation requirements for barber, independent contract owner, or student

Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Stogner v. Com. of Ky. (1985)

Most recently applied in Stogner v. Com. of Ky. (February 1985)

Effective: June 27, 2025 History: Amended 2025 Ky

No barber, independent contract owner, or student shall:

(1) Knowingly continue to practice while he or she 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 patron;

(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 nude skin of the patron's body;

(4) Use on one (1) patron a towel that has been used upon another patron, unless the towel has been relaundered; or (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 head, face, hands, 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 such methods of sterilization as are bacteriologically effective and approved by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall be used.

(6) Fail to wash his or her hands in a sink both before and after contact with each patron. Methods to sterilize hands that are bacteriologically effective as approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration's Food Code, Sections 2-301.11 through 2-304.11, shall also be recognized and used. Barber shop and mobile barber shop licenses shall require that a sink with hot and cold running water be located in the room where barbering is done.

Official source: Kentucky General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Kentucky statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.