{"data":{"id":"us-md/md.-code-business-occupations-and-professions-5-607","jurisdiction":"us-md","citation":"Md. Code, Business Occupations and Professions § 5–607","heading":"","body":"(a) An owner or lessee of a beauty salon may not knowingly:\n(1) employ in the beauty salon an individual with an infectious or contagious disease that presents a hazard to a patron; or\n(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.\n(b) (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.\n(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.\n(c) An individual may not practice cosmetology in a careless or negligent manner so as to:\n(1) cause an infection; or\n(2) impart an infectious or contagious disease that presents a hazard to a beauty salon patron.","path":["Article - Business Occupations and Professions"],"source_url":"https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Laws/StatuteText?article=gbo\u0026section=5-607","current_through":"2026-01-01","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T19:56:13Z","sha256":"cd297dc3146d5ea83186b276178f24b872848ca41e273018f229d1e4af654056","source_id":"us-md","stale":false,"prev":"us-md/md.-code-business-occupations-and-professions-5-606","next":"us-md/md.-code-business-occupations-and-professions-5-608"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}