KRS 317.580: Sanitation requirements for barber, independent contract owner, or

student.

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 p rovide 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 equipm ent 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 agai n 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 s terilize 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.