Rhode Island Code of Regulations › Title 216 - Department of health › Chapter 40 - Professional licensing and facility regulation › Subchapter 10 - Facility regulation › Part 24 - Tanning Facilities (216-RICR-40-10-24) › Section 216-RICR-40-10-24.4 - Definitions

Current through June 14, 2024
A. Wherever used in this Part the following
				  terms shall be construed as follows:
1. "Act"
				  means R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter 23-68 entitled, "Tanning Facility Safety Standard
				  Act."
2. "Department" means the
				  Rhode Island Department of Health.
3. "Director" means the Director of the Rhode
				  Island Department of Health.
4.
				  "EPA" means the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
5. "FDA" means the United States Food and
				  Drug Administration.
6. "Minor"
				  means any individual under the age of eighteen.
7. "Other compensation" means the payment or
				  exchange of goods, services or anything of value for use of the tanning device
				  or devices.
8. "Patron" means any
				  member of the public who is provided access to a tanning device in exchange for
				  a fee or other compensation, or any individual who, in exchange for a fee or
				  other compensation, is afforded use of a tanning device as a condition or
				  benefit of membership or access.
9.
				  "Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, firm, association,
				  trust, estate, public or private institution, group, agency, political
				  subdivision of this state, any other state or political subdivision or agency
				  thereof, and any legal successor, representative, agent or agency of these
				  entities.
10. "Protective eyewear"
				  means any device designed to be worn by users of a product to reduce exposure
				  of the eyes to radiation emitted by the product.
11. "Registrant" means any person who is
				  registered with the Department as required by provisions of this
				  Part.
12. "Registration" means
				  registration with the Department in accordance with provisions of this
				  Part.
13. "Safe level" means not
				  more than fifty (50) colonies of microorganisms per four (4) square inches of
				  equipment surface.
14.
				  "Sanitization" means the effective bactericidal treatment of surfaces of
				  equipment and devices by an EPA or FDA registered product which provides a
				  sufficient concentration of chemicals, allowing enough time to reduce the
				  bacterial count, including pathogens, to a safe level. Chemical germicides that
				  are registered with the EPA as hospital disinfectants, when used at recommended
				  dilutions and directions, may be approved for sanitizing tanning
				  devices.
15. "Sunlamp product"
				  means any electronic product designed to incorporate one (1) or more
				  ultraviolet lamps and intended for irradiation of any part of the living human
				  body, by ultraviolet radiation with wavelengths in air between two hundred
				  (200) nanometers and four hundred (400) nanometers, to induce skin
				  tanning.
16. "Tanning device" means
				  any equipment used during the process of skin tanning with a sunlamp product,
				  such as any sunlamp product and any accompanying equipment, including, but not
				  limited to, timers, ballasts, starters, lamps, reflectors, cooling fans,
				  acrylics, comfort pillows and handrails.
17. "Tanning facility" means any location,
				  place, area, structure, or business that either as a sole service or in
				  conjunction with other services, provides patrons with access to sunlamps,
				  ultraviolet lamps or other equipment intended to induce skin tanning through
				  the irradiation of any part of the human body for cosmetic or non-medical
				  purposes.
18. "Timer" means a
				  device provided to terminate the exposure at a preset time interval.
19. "Ultraviolet lamp" means any lamp that
				  produces ultraviolet radiation in the wavelength interval of two hundred (200)
				  nanometers to four hundred (400) nanometers in air and that is intended for use
				  in any sunlamp product.