Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 49 - PUBLIC HEALTH-FOOD, DRUGS, AND COSMETICS › Part I - Regulations › Chapter 13 - Tanning Facility Regulations › Section I-1305 - Definitions [formerly 49:8.0020]

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
Act
-Tanning Facility Regulation Act, unless
				  the text clearly indicates a different meaning. All definitions and
				  interpretations of terms given in the Act shall be applicable also to such
				  terms when used in these regulations.
Authorized Agent
-an employee of the
				  department designated by the state health officer to enforce the provisions of
				  the Act. The responsibility for implementing the provisions of the Act has been
				  assigned to the Food and Drug Unit of the Office of Public Health of the
				  Department of Health and Hospitals.
Consumer
-any individual who is provided
				  access to a tanning facility which is required to be registered pursuant to
				  provisions of these regulations.
Department
-the Department of Health and
				  Hospitals.
Formal Training
-a course of instruction
				  approved by the department and presented under formal classroom conditions by a
				  qualified expert possessing adequate knowledge and experience to offer a
				  curriculum, associated training, and certification testing pertaining to and
				  associated with the correct use of tanning equipment.
Individual
-any human being.
Operator
-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.
Persons
-any individual, corporation,
				  partnership, firm, association, trust, estate, public or private institution,
				  group, agency, political subdivision or agency thereof, and any legal
				  successor, representative, agent, or agency of these entities.
Phototherapy Device
-a piece of equipment
				  that emits ultraviolet radiation and is used by a licensed health care
				  professional in the treatment of disease.
Registrant
-any person who has filed for and
				  received a certificate of registration-permit issued by the department as
				  required by provisions of these regulations.
Secretary
-the secretary of the Department of
				  Health and Hospitals.
State Health Officer
-the employee of the
				  department who is the chief health care official of the state as provided for
				  in
				  R.S.
				  40:2.
Tanning Equipment
-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.
Tanning Facility
-any location, place, area,
				  structure, or business which provides consumers access to tanning equipment.
				  For the purpose of this definition, tanning equipment. For the purpose of this
				  definition, tanning equipment registered to different persons at the same
				  location and tanning equipment registered to the same persons, but at separate
				  locations, shall constitute separate tanning facilities.
Ultraviolet Radiation
-electromagnetic
				  radiation with wavelengths in air between 200 nanometers and 400
				  nanometers.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
				  Promulgated in accordance with R.S.
				  40:2701-2719.