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Code · Louisiana · Title 40 — Public Health and Safety

RS 40:2703

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RS 40:2703
§2703. Definitions
As used in this Chapter, these terms shall have the following meanings:
(1)"Authorized agent" means an employee of the department designated by the state health officer to enforce the provisions of this Chapter.
(2)"Consumer" means any individual who is provided access to a tanning facility which is required to be registered pursuant to provisions of this Chapter.
(3)"Department" means the Louisiana Department of Health.
(4)"Individual" means any human being.
(5)"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.
(6)"Persons" 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.
(7)"Phototherapy device" means a piece of equipment that emits ultraviolet radiation and is used by a licensed health care professional in the treatment of disease.
(8)"Registrant" means any person who is registered with the department as required by provisions of this Chapter.
(9)"Registration" means registration with the department in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter.
(10)"State health officer" means the employee of the department who is the chief health care official of the state as provided for in R.S. 40:2.
(11)"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.
(12)"Tanning facility" means any location, place, area, structure, or business which provides consumers access to 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 person, but at separate locations, shall constitute separate tanning facilities.
(13)"Ultraviolet radiation" means electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths in air between two hundred nanometers and four hundred nanometers.
Acts 1990, No. 587, §1, eff. July 19, 1990; Acts 1992, No. 432, §1.
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