{"data":{"id":"us-ky/krs-317.580","jurisdiction":"us-ky","citation":"KRS 317.580","heading":"Sanitation requirements for barber, independent contract owner, or","body":"student.\nNo barber, independent contract owner, or student shall:\n(1) Knowingly continue to practice while he or she has an infectious or communicable\ndisease;\n(2) Fail to p rovide the head rest of each chair with a relaundered towel or a sheet of\nclean paper for each patron;\n(3) Fail to place around the patron's neck a strip of cotton, towel, or neck strip so that\nthe haircloth does not come in contact with the nude skin of the patron's body;\n(4) Use on one (1) patron a towel that has been used upon another patron, unless the\ntowel has been relaundered; or\n(5) Use on any patron any razor, scissors, tweezers, comb, sachet, rubber disc or part of\nvibrator or other similar equipm ent or appliance that comes into contact with the\nhead, face, hands, or neck of a patron, until the equipment or appliance has been\nimmersed in boiling water for ten (10) minutes or in a sterilizing solution and\nplaced in a wet or dry sterilizer until agai n used. Only such methods of sterilization\nas are bacteriologically effective and approved by the Cabinet for Health and\nFamily Services shall be used.\n(6) Fail to wash his or her hands in a sink both before and after contact with each\npatron. Methods to s terilize hands that are bacteriologically effective as approved\nby the United States Food and Drug Administration's Food Code, Sections 2-301.11\nthrough 2-304.11, shall also be recognized and used. Barber shop and mobile barber\nshop licenses shall require that a sink with hot and cold running water be located in\nthe room where barbering is done.","path":["KRS Chapter 317"],"source_url":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=56221","current_through":"Includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"09/05/2026","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T20:58:13Z","sha256":"b2fdf13314b1e71b6b79add9d91c71be382304b93ab722a605cb08bb54f5e022","source_id":"us-ky","stale":false,"prev":"us-ky/krs-317.570","next":"us-ky/krs-317.590"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}