No public barbershop, hairdressing establishment, manicuring or beauty parlor shall be conducted or maintained in the Borough of Ridgefield without a permit therefor issued by the New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety, or otherwise than in accordance with the terms of said permit, and with the regulations of that department. The term "barbershop, public hairdressing establishment, public manicuring parlor, public beauty parlor," as used in this section, shall be taken to mean and include all premises as are commonly known by the term of "barbershop, hairdressing establishment, manicuring and beauty parlor," respectively, and shall include all premises or portions thereof wherein the business of shaving, clipping, cutting, trimming, singeing, shampooing, massaging, manicuring, dressing, adorning or beautifying the human hair, face, scalp or hands is conducted for fee, charge or hire.
Every public barbershop, hairdressing establishment, manicuring parlor and beauty parlor shall be properly and adequately lighted and ventilated.
The walls, ceilings, furniture and other fixtures, and all other exposed surfaces in every such establishment, shall be clean and free from dust.
The floors of every such establishment shall be thoroughly swept or mopped each day. All hair droppings upon the floor shall be removed therefrom as soon as practicable and in such manner as not to cause a nuisance.
Every such establishment shall be provided with suitable and sufficient water closets, properly and adequately flushed, trapped and sewer connected, located in a suitable and adequately and properly ventilated area with self-enclosing doors.
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 connected.
Attendants shall wash their hands thoroughly with soap and hot water before attending each and every person.
No person who is affected with an infectious disease in a communicable form shall attend any person in any such establishment.
No person affected with any infectious disease in a communicable form shall be attended in any such establishment.
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 cleaned and sterilized after each and every separate use thereof; provided, however, that where complete sterilization is not practical, the same shall be so cleaned 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 hereby prohibited.
All razor 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 said razors before such stropping or honing have been treated as provided in § 440-41.
No towel shall be used in any such establishment for more than one (1) person without being laundered. Towels, when laundered, shall be washed in water at a temperature of at least two hundred degrees Fahrenheit (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 two hundred degrees Fahrenheit (200° F.) in the process of drying or ironing.
Before any patron 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.
No alum or astringent in stick form shall be used in such establishment.
No powderpuff, sponge or neck duster shall be used in any such establishment.
The use of soap in common or for more than one (1) person is prohibited in any such establishment.
The use of shaving cups or mugs or of finger bowls, in common or for more than one (1) person, is prohibited in any such establishment.
Sufficient copies of these requirements shall be posted in conspicuous places in every establishment.