Resident grooming
Compiled text through Jul 31, 2022
Register checked through Jul 29, 2026
No later Register activity identified in this check.
Dates and status
- Compiling agency
- Executive Department
- Text status
- Source receipt
- Compiled text through
- Jul 31, 2022
- Register checked through
- July 29, 2026/Vol. XLVIII, Issue 30 (2026-07-29)
- Activity status
- No later Register activity identified in this check.
- Source snapshot
- Jun 6, 2026
(a)Consistent with the provisions of this Part, residents may wear their hair, and facial hair, as they choose.
(b)The length and style of residents' hair and facial hair may be restricted where such restrictions are necessary to preserve the safety, security or good order of the facility or the health of any individual.
(c)Residents may be required to observe reasonable precautions with respect to hair or facial hair in the interest of health and safety.
(d)Where the involuntary removal of a resident's hair or facial hair is determined advisable to preserve safety, security or good order of the facility or the health of any individual, the facility director shall make a written request to the deputy director for residential services, with a copy to the director of ombudsmen, stating the reasons necessitating such removal, and shall not proceed until written approval of such action is received.