Section 45-49-40.18 - Enforcement of other sanitation provisions; employment of maid or porter; penalties; oath of commissioners(a) Nothing contained in this part shall be construed to prevent the Department of Public Health or any local board of health or other board or body, exercising the powers of such local boards, from enacting and enforcing ordinances, codes, rules, and regulations pertaining to sanitation in barber shops, in excess of this part, for which authority they have been or may be granted by law.(b) No owner or manager of a barber shop or barber college shall employ any person as a maid or porter unless the person has on file a health certificate signed by a licensed practicing physician stating that the employee is free from any communicable or contagious disease or from a venereal disease.(c) Any person violating this part shall upon conviction be punished by a fine or not less that fifty dollars ($50) and not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by imprisonment for a term not to exceed six months or by both fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. This subsection shall have application to any officer or agent of a corporation, copartnership, or association operated in violation of this part. Any court of competent jurisdiction in the county shall have full power to try any violation of this part, and upon conviction the court may at its discretion revoke the license of the person, copartnership, association, or corporation violating the terms hereof.(d) Before the commissioners herein provided for shall receive a commission and enter upon the discharge of their duties each shall take and subscribe the oath provided by law to be taken by elective officers of the State of Alabama.Ala. Code § 45-49-40.18 (1975)