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Maryland Code, Business Occupations and Professions § 5-607

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) An owner or lessee of a beauty salon may not knowingly:

(1) employ in the beauty salon an individual with an infectious or contagious disease that presents a hazard to a patron; or

(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.

(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.

(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.

(c) An individual may not practice cosmetology in a careless or negligent manner so as to:

(1) cause an infection; or

(2) impart an infectious or contagious disease that presents a hazard to a beauty salon patron.

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