Mississippi Administrative Code
Title 15 - Mississippi Department of Health
Part 14 - General Sanitation
Subpart 70 - General Sanitation Regulations
Chapter 5 - REGULATION GOVERNING BARBERING, BARBER SHOPS AND BARBER SCHOOLS
Subchapter 1 - INTRODUCTION
Rule 15-14-70-5.1.1

Universal Citation: MS Code of Rules 15-14-70-5.1.1

Current through September 24, 2024

It is hereby ordered that the Sanitary Regulations Governing Barbering, Barber Shops, Barber Colleges and Beauty Parlors, adopted by the Mississippi State Board of Health on July 15, 1930, amended May 13, 1931, and August 13, 1934, be repealed and the following regulation be adopted:

1. All barber shops and barber schools shall be open for inspection during business hours to official representatives of the State Board of Health.

2. All barber shops and barber schools must be supplied with adequate running hot and cold water, under pressure, from an approved supply. All barber shops and barber schools located on streets or alleys where a public sanitary sewer system is available shall have a sewer connection to such sewer system into which all liquid waste shall be disposed. Where a public sanitary sewer system is not available, all liquid waste shall be disposed of in a manner approved by the Health Officer.

3. All barber shops, barber schools and all furnishings, equipment, tools, floors, walls and ceilings shall be kept clean and in good repair at all times. Hair must be promptly swept from the floor and put in a closed container or taken from the room. Soiled lather paper and soiled towels shall be kept in separate receptacles. The head-rest of each chair must be covered with clean paper only and this paper, once used, must be discarded. A clean towel or a fresh strip of paper must be placed around each patron's neck so that the hair cloth does not come in contact with the skin. Such material once used shall be .discarded. Spitting on the floor is prohibited. If cuspidors are used, they must be thoroughly cleaned at least once daily and a small amount of water, preferably some good disinfectant solution, must be kept in them at all times. All barber shops and barber schools shall be well lighted and ventilated.

4. In each barber shop or barber school, there shall be provided receptacles for soiled towels. Each barber shall, immediately after the completion of the service to a customer, place the towel or towels used on each customer in such receptacle and no towel shall be withdrawn from such receptacles and used on any customer until the towel has been properly laundered. No soiled towels shall be left on the lavatory, barber chair or back bar.

5. One of the following approved methods of disinfecting must be available for use at all times:

a. Immersion in boiling water or steam for at least five minutes.

b. Immersion for at least five minutes in bathing or grain alcohol (70%).

c. Immersion for ten minutes in 1 per cent solution Liquor Cresolis Compound.

d. Immersion for one minute in hexylresorcinol (S. T. 37).

e. Immersion for one minute in Metaphen (1 to 1000).

f. Immersion for one minute in Mercuric Cyanide (1 to 5000).

g. Immersion for one minute in solution Merthiolate (1 to 10010).

h. Immersion for one minute in I per cent solution Beniodide of Mercury.

i. Immersion for two minutes in Chlorine solution containing 200 parts per million of Chlorine.

j. Ultra violet ray cabinets may be used but will not be accepted as approved disinfecting devices.

k. All disinfected instruments and brushes when not in use shall be kept in a clean cabinet which is used for these articles only.

Miss. Code Ann.§ 41-3-17

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