Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2713 – Operational requirements
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2713
- Consumer: means any individual who is provided access to a tanning facility which is required to be registered pursuant to provisions of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2703
- Operator: means any individual designated by the registrant to operate or to assist and instruct the consumer in the operation and use of the tanning facility or tanning equipment. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2703
- Registrant: means any person who is registered with the department as required by provisions of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2703
- Tanning equipment: means ultraviolet or other lamps and equipment containing such lamps intended to induce skin tanning through the irradiation of any part of the living human body with ultraviolet radiation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2703
- Tanning facility: means any location, place, area, structure, or business which provides consumers access to tanning equipment. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2703
- Ultraviolet radiation: means electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths in air between two hundred nanometers and four hundred nanometers. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2703
A. A tanning facility shall have an operator present during operating hours. The operator must be sufficiently knowledgeable of the correct operation of the tanning devices used at the facility to inform and assist each customer in the proper use of the tanning devices.
B. The registrant shall provide protective eyewear to each consumer for wear during any use of tanning equipment.
C. The protective eyewear required in Subsection B of this Section shall meet the requirements of 21 C.F.R. § 1040.20(c)(5).
D. Tanning facility operators shall use concerted efforts to ensure that consumers wear the protective eyewear required by this Section.
E. The registrant shall ensure that the protective eyewear required by this Section are properly sanitized before each use and shall not rely upon exposure to the ultraviolet radiation produced by the tanning equipment itself to provide such sanitizing.
Acts 1990, No. 587, §1, eff. July 19, 1990; Acts 1992, No. 432, §1.