§ 40:2703 — Definitions

Louisiana § 40:2703

• Jurisdiction: Louisiana
• Title 40: Public Health and Safety

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§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.

Legislative History

Acts 1990, No. 587, §1, eff. July 19, 1990; Acts 1992, No. 432, §1.