Promoting Public Health by Providing Sanitary & Health Regulations for Barber Shops

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GENERAL ORDINANCE NO. AN ORDINANCE TO PROMOTE PUBLIC HEALTH BY PROVIDING SANITARY AND HEALTH REGULATIONS FOR BARBER SHOPS AND ESTABLISHMENTS AND IN THE PRACTICES OF BARBERING; PROVIDING FOR SUPERVISION AND INSPECTION AND PRESCRIBING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS. SECTION ONE. DEFINITIONS: Unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms as used in this ordinance shall be construed according to the definitions given below. BARBER. Every person who shaves or trims the beard or cuts the hair, or gives facial or scalp massage or facial or scalp treatments with oil or cream and other preparations made for that purpose, either by hand or by mechanical appliances, or singes or shampoos the hair, or applies hair tonic to or dyes the hair of any person, provided; however, nothing in this ordinance shall be construed to include a person performing such services upon members of his immediate family, person licensed by law of this state to practice medicine or surgery also under- takers, morticians and registered nurses, in connection with their professional duties. Registered beauty culturists under the Indiana Beauty Culture Act, shall be exempt from this Act insofar as covered in the Beauty Culture Act, and they shall be permitted to cut, trim or snip, the stray or straggling ends of hair of a patron or customer incidental to and in connection with arranging or dressing of a woman's hair. BARBER SHOP. Any place where the aforesaid work of business of a Barber is performed; the term shall include Barber School, and Barber College and shall be any premises, buildings, or any parts of a building or place whereupon or within which any combination of the practice of barbering as herein defined is carried on. BARBER CHAIR. Shall include each and every chair, stool or contrivance on which a person sits or reclines for the purpose of receiving any of the services rendered by a Barber as de- fined by this Ordinance. PERSON: To include an individual, firm, corporation or o- partnership. SINGULAR. Shall include plural. MASCULINE GENDER. Shall include feminine gender. SECTION TWO. It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the business of Barbering or operating a Barber Shop without first having obtained a City License therefor. SECTION THREE. APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS. Every person esiring a license to engage in the business of Barbering or onducting or operating a Barber Shop in the City of South Bend hall appear in person at the office of the Health Director, in the ity of South Bend and make application therefor, giving the ollowing information: