2003 Minnesota Statutes

     154.19 Violations. 

    Each of the following constitutes a misdemeanor: 

    (1) The violation of any of the provisions of section 
 154.01; 

    (2) Permitting any person in one's employ, supervision, or 
 control to practice as a registered barber or registered 
 apprentice unless that person has a certificate of registration 
 as a registered barber or registered apprentice; 

    (3) Obtaining or attempting to obtain a certificate of 
 registration for money other than the required fee, or any other 
 thing of value, or by fraudulent misrepresentation; 

    (4) Practicing or attempting to practice by fraudulent 
 misrepresentation; 

    (5) The willful failure to display a certificate of 
 registration as required by section 154.14; 

    (6) The use of any room or place for barbering which is 
 also used for residential or business purposes, except the sale 
 of hair tonics, lotions, creams, cutlery, toilet articles, 
 cigars, tobacco, candies in original package, and such 
 commodities as are used and sold in barber shops, and except 
 that shoe-shining and an agency for the reception and delivery 
 of laundry, or either, may be conducted in a barber shop without 
 the same being construed as a violation of this section, unless 
 a substantial partition of ceiling height separates the portion 
 used for residential or business purposes, and where a barber 
 shop is situated in a residence, poolroom, confectionery, store, 
 restaurant, garage, clothing store, liquor store, hardware 
 store, or soft drink parlor, there must be an outside entrance 
 leading into the barber shop independent of any entrance leading 
 into such business establishment, except that this provision as 
 to an outside entrance shall not apply to barber shops in 
 operation at the time of the passage of this chapter and except 
 that a barber shop and beauty parlor may be operated in 
 conjunction, without the same being separated by partition of 
 ceiling height; 

    (7) The failure or refusal of any barber or other person in 
 charge of any barber shop, or any person in barber schools or 
 colleges doing barber service work, to use separate and clean 
 towels for each customer or patron, or to discard and launder 
 each towel after once being used; 

    (8) The failure or refusal by any barber or other person in 
 charge of any barber shop or barber school or barber college to 
 supply clean hot and cold water in such quantities as may be 
 necessary to conduct such shop, or the barbering service of such 
 school or college, in a sanitary manner, or the failure or 
 refusal of any such person to have water and sewer connections 
 from such shop, or barber school or college, with municipal 
 water and sewer systems where the latter are available for use, 
 or the failure or refusal of any such person to maintain a 
 receptacle for hot water of a capacity of not less than five 
 gallons; 

    (9) For the purposes of this chapter, barbers, students, 
 apprentices, or the proprietor or manager of a barber shop, or 
 barber school or barber college, shall be responsible for all 
 violations of the sanitary provisions of this chapter, and if 
 any barber shop, or barber school or barber college, upon 
 inspection, shall be found to be in an unsanitary condition, the 
 person making such inspection shall immediately issue an order 
 to place the barber shop, or barber school, or barber college, 
 in a sanitary condition, in a manner and within a time 
 satisfactory to the board of barber examiners, and for the 
 failure to comply with such order the board shall immediately 
 file a complaint for the arrest of the persons upon whom the 
 order was issued, and any licensed barber who shall fail to 
 comply with the rules adopted by the Board of Barber Examiners, 
 with the approval of the state commissioner of health, or the 
 violation or commission of any of the offenses described in 
 section 154.16, clauses (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), 
 (9), and of clauses (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), and 
 (9) of this section, shall be fined not less than $10 or 
 imprisoned for ten days and not more than $100 or imprisoned for 
 90 days. 

    HIST: (5846-19) 1927 c 316 s 19; 1929 c 270 s 19; 1929 c 386 s 
 1; 1935 c 229 s 9; 1945 c 160 s 5; 1977 c 305 s 45; 1985 c 248 s 
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