(a) The board shall, with the approval of the department of health, promulgate rules of sanitation that it may deem reasonably necessary, with particular attention to the precautions for preventing the development and spread of infections and contagious diseases.

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 62-4-125

  • Board: means the state board of cosmetology and barber examiners created by §. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Cosmetology: means any of the following practices:
    (A) Arranging, dressing, curling, waving, cleansing, cutting, singeing, bleaching, coloring or similar work on the hair of any person by any means. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
  • Manager: means a person licensed under chapter 3 or chapter 4 of this title in at least one (1) discipline that a shop is licensed to offer, who serves in a supervisory or managerial capacity in the shop, and whose information is filed with the board. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
  • Mobile shop: means any self-contained, self-supporting, enclosed motor vehicle that may be used as a barber shop, cosmetology shop, dual shop, manicure shop, skin care shop, or any other category of shop licensed by the board. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
  • Natural hair styling: means techniques that result in tension on hair strands such as twisting, wrapping, weaving, extending, locking or braiding of the hair by hand or mechanical appliances, which work does not include the application of dyes, reactive chemicals or other preparations to alter the color or to straighten, curl or alter the structure of the hair. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
  • Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • School: means a school of cosmetology. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
  • Shop: means a cosmetology shop, manicure shop, skin care shop, or natural hair styling shop. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
(b) Each school and shop shall have:

(1) Adequate restroom facilities, except when located in a commercial building where such facilities are already provided; and
(2) Separate entrances from entrances to adjoining residential or living quarters, if any.
(c) Where a school and a shop are operated in the same building, there shall be separate entrances and exits and separate restroom facilities for each business.
(d) It is unlawful:

(1) For the owner or manager of any school or shop to permit any person to sleep in or use for residential purposes any room used wholly or partially as a school or shop; and
(2) For any person, firm or corporation that holds a cosmetology, manicurist or aesthetician license to practice cosmetology outside a shop or school, or for any person, firm or corporation that holds a natural hair styling license to practice natural hair styling outside a shop or school, except:

(A) In any nursing home;
(B) In the recipient’s residence, short-term residence, or place of business;
(C) In any hospital or infirmary;
(D) In a funeral establishment;
(E) In a retail establishment, to demonstrate or apply, or both, cosmetics without charge;
(F) At the site of television, motion picture, video or theatrical productions, photographic sessions or similar activities; or
(G) In a licensed mobile shop.
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