# Business Occupations and Professions (GBO)

## Title 5. Cosmetologists

### Subtitle 6. Prohibited Acts; Penalties

#### Section 5-607

(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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Md. Code Ann., Bus. Occ. & Prof. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)