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 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 licenses issued after July 12, 2006, shall require that a sink with hot and cold running water be located in the room where barbering is done. Effective: March 30, 2018 History: Amended 2018 Ky. Acts ch. 46, sec. 10, effective March 30, 2018. -- Amended 2013 Ky. Acts ch. 51, sec. 7, effective June 25, 2013. -- Amended 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 32, sec. 7, effective July 12, 2006. -- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 354, sec. 22. -- Created 1960 Ky. Acts ch. 233, sec. 17, effective June 30, 1960. Legislative Research Commission Note (7/12/2006). 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 675, instructs the Reviser of Statutes to correct statutory references to agencies and officers whose names have been changed in the Act, as it confirms the establishment of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. Such a correction has been made in this section.