No place shall be used, maintained or permitted to be used or maintained as a place where barbering, manicuring or hair dressing is done for pay unless all of the following requirements are complied with:
(a) Local Provisions.
(1) Every such place shall be supplied with running hot and cold water;
(2) No vessel, utensil, instrument, towel, cloth or other article coming in contact with the skin of any person in the process of barbering, manicuring or hair dressing shall be used until after it has been sterilized, and no sponge, powder puff or other articles that are not so sterilized shall be used in any such process. No alum or other material for stopping the flow of blood shall be used, except in powdered or liquid form in any such process;
(3) No room where barbering, manicuring or hair dressing is done shall be used for sleeping purposes, and no furniture adapted for sleeping room purposes shall be in any such room;
(4) Every such place and all furniture, fixtures and equipment in such place shall be maintained in a clean condition at all times;
(5) No person having any communicable disease shall engage in any of the processes of barbering, manicuring or hair dressing. No proprietor, manager or person in charge of any place where barbering, manicuring or hair dressing is done for pay, shall permit a person so infected to be engaged in any such process. Such proprietor or manager shall, within twelve (12) hours after the discovery that any person engaged in any of the processes above referred to has any communicable disease, report such fact to the Department of Health.
(b) State Provisions.
(1) All barber shops shall be open for inspection during business hours to the members of the State Board of Barber Examiners or their inspectors and authorized representatives of the State or City Departments of Health;
(2) The holder of a certificate of registration or permit shall post the same, together with his or her photograph, in a conspicuous place adjacent to or near his or her work chair, where it may readily be seen;
(3) No barber, apprentice or student shall continue the practice of barbering in a barber shop while such person has an infectious or communicable disease;
(4) Only a water supply approved by the Ohio or City Department of Health shall be used in any barber shop. Both hot and cold water shall be piped under pressure to a water basin. The waste water shall be discharged into an approved sanitary sewage system or otherwise disposed of in a manner approved by the Ohio or City Department of Health;
(5) Every barber shop shall be provided with toilet facilities, including hot and cold running water and a water flushed toilet approved by the Ohio or City Department of Health;
(6) The hands of the barber shall be thoroughly washed with soap and water and dried on a clean, freshly laundered towel or paper towel, immediately before serving each patron;
(7) All instruments shall be kept in a closed compartment and shall be disinfected before each use on a patron by immersion in a five percent (5%) solution of carbolic acid for not less than five (5) minutes, or by other methods of disinfection which shall be equivalent to this standard.
A dip disinfectant solution container, not less than eight (8) inches tall and three (3) inches in diameter, shall be kept for each chair in operation. Such container shall be kept filled at all times, and it shall be completely emptied, cleaned and refilled with fresh solution at least once a week.
Since disinfecting solutions may injure the skin, instruments immersed in these solutions shall be carefully rinsed in warm, running water before use;
(8) All laundered linen shall be kept in a closed compartment at all times;
(9) All linen used on a patron shall be freshly laundered, including dry and steam towels, before using;
(10) The head rest of a barber chair shall be covered with a freshly laundered towel or fresh paper for each patron;
(11) In cutting the hair of any patron, a newly-laundered towel or paper shall be placed about the neck to prevent the hair cloth from touching the skin;
(12) All towels used on each patron shall be deposited in an enclosed towel receptacle. Towels shall not be left lying on work bench or wash bowl. Soiled or used towels found on work bench, barber chair or wash bowl constitute prima facie evidence that the same are being used without being relaundered;
(13) Nothing but powdered or liquid astringents, applied in each case on a clean towel, shall be used to check bleeding. The possession of styptic or astringent pencils, lump alum, finger bowls or sponges is prima facie evidence that the same are being used in that practice of barbering and are unlawful;
(14) No barber or other person in charge of any barber shop shall undertake to treat any disease of the skin;
(15) No patron showing evidence of disease of the face or scalp shall be served in any barber shop until he or she presents a statement from a physician that the infection is not communicable;
(16) The use of a neck duster or hair brush from one (1) patron to another is prohibited;
(17) The use of any room or place for barbering which is also used for residential business purposes, except the sale of hair tonics, lotions, creams, toilet articles, cigars, tobacco, confectionery, laundry and such other commodities as are used and sold in barber shops, is prohibited by law, unless a substantial partition of ceiling height separates the portion used for residential or business purposes;
(18) All barber shop equipment, furniture, floors, walls, ceilings, windows, bathrooms, toilets, adjoining rooms and all articles within the immediate environment of a barber shop shall be kept clean and orderly at all times. Cuspidors and waste paper baskets must be emptied and cleaned at least every twenty-four (24) hours;
(19) Performing any of the services constituting barbering for pay, free or otherwise on Sunday is expressly prohibited;
(20) No barber shop shall be opened for the business of barbering until a certificate of approval is given by the State Board of Barber Examiners. Any person or persons proposing to open a barber shop in a new location or to change locations shall first make application to the State Board of Barber Examiners for an inspection and approval of the premises.
(Ord. No. 511-76. Passed 6-14-76, eff. 6-18-76)