[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Health
of the Borough of Totowa 11-18-1976 (Ch. 148 of the 1974 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
All such premises as are commonly known by the terms "barbershop,"
"hairdressing establishments," "manicuring parlor" and "beauty parlor,"
respectively, and shall include all premises or portions thereof wherein
the business of shaving, clipping, cutting, trimming, singeing, shampooing,
massaging or manicuring the hair (human or otherwise), face, scalp
or hands is conducted for a fee, charge or hire.
No public barbershop, hairdressing establishment
or manicuring or beauty parlor shall be conducted or maintained in
the Borough of Totowa without first obtaining a permit for that purpose
from the Board of Health of said Borough. Such permit may be issued
by said Board of Health upon payment of $10, and said permit shall
expire on the 31st day of December of each year.
The following regulations shall govern the conduct
of public barbershops, hairdressing establishments, beauty school
colleges and manicuring and beauty parlors:
A.
Regulation 1: establishment to be lighted and ventilated.
Every public barbershop, beauty school, hairdressing establishment,
manicuring parlor and beauty shop shall be properly and adequately
lighted and ventilated.
B.
Regulation 2: walls, ceilings, etc., to be kept clean.
The walls, ceilings, furniture and other fixtures and all other exposed
surfaces in every such establishment shall be kept clean and free
from dust.
C.
Regulation 3: floors to be kept clean. Floors of every
such establishment shall be thoroughly swept or mopped each day. All
hair dropping upon the floor shall be removed therefrom as soon as
practicable and in such manner as not to cause a nuisance.
D.
Regulation 4: water closets to be provided for employees.
Every such establishment shall be provided with suitable and sufficient
water closets, properly and adequately flushed, trapped and sewer
connected, located in suitable and adequate and properly ventilated
apartments with self-closing doors for employees.
E.
Regulation 5: washing facilities to be provided. Every
such establishment shall be provided with suitable and adequate washing
facilities with hot and cold running water; sinks or washbasins must
be of nonabsorbent material, properly trapped, flushed and sewer or
cesspool connected.
F.
Regulation 6: attendants to wash hands. Attendants
shall wash their hands thoroughly with soap and hot water before attending
any person.
G.
Regulation 7: infectious diseases of attendants. No
person who is affected with any infectious diseases in a communicable
form shall attend any person in any such establishment.
H.
Regulation 8: infectious diseases of patrons. No person
affected with any infectious disease in a communicable form shall
be attended in any such establishment.
I.
Regulation 9: implements to be cleaned and sterilized.
All brushes, combs, razors, clippers, scissors, tweezers, blackhead
removers, files, pushers, buffers and all massage and scalp applicators
used in any such establishment shall be thoroughly cleansed and sterilized
after each and every separate use thereof; provided, however, that
where complete sterilization is not practicable, the same shall be
cleansed and treated after each and every separate use thereof, as
to provide the maximum of sterility attainable. The use of any such
implements which cannot be so treated is prohibited.
J.
Regulation 10: strops and hones to be kept clean.
All razors, strops and hones used in any such establishment shall
be maintained in a cleanly condition at all times, and no razor shall
be stropped or honed after any use thereof for shaving unless the
said razor shall before such stropping or honing have been treated
as provided for in Regulation 9.
K.
Regulation 11: individual towels required. No towel
shall be used in any such establishment for more than one person without
being laundered. Towels when laundered shall be washed in water of
a temperature of at least 200° F.; provided, however, that this
latter requirement shall not apply to towels which are subjected,
on the premises where washed, to a temperature of at least 200°
F. in the process of drying and ironing.
L.
Regulation 12: individual headrest coverings required.
Before any patron attending in any such establishment is permitted
to recline in a chair, the headrest of such chair shall be covered
with a clean towel or clean sheet of paper not previously used for
any other purpose.
M.
Regulation 13: use of stick astringents prohibited.
No alum or other astringent in stick form shall be used in any such
establishment.
N.
Regulation 14: use of powder puffs or sponges prohibited.
No powder puff or sponge shall be used in any such establishment.
O.
Regulation 15: use of soap in common prohibited. The
use of soap in common or for more than one person is prohibited in
any such establishment.
P.
Regulation 16: regulations to be posted. Sufficient
copies of these regulations shall be kept posted in conspicuous places
in every establishment.
