A business owner may set terms that restrict or prohibit children from entering the business. However, whether or not it’s legal for the landlord to dictate that to a renter is likely not covered by any specific legislation. Most commercial landlord/tenant relationships are governed by contract law, which means that if the nail technician agreed to the terms in the contract and those terms prohibited children or gave the landlord the ability to dictate those types of policies, then she has to abide by it.

There are practical reasons a landlord would implement that policy. The first is liability (obviously), but the less obvious reason has to do with tenant retention. If she is running a rental establishment, she has multiple renters operating under the same roof. It’s in her best interest to keep all of those renters (and their clients) happy. As a professional, I have seen clients bring small children and allow them to run wild in the salon. It’s not only dangerous, it’s disruptive to the other professionals and clients. It sounds to me as if this has been a problem at some point in the very recent past. Owners don’t arbitrarily implement policies like that unless they’re pressured to do so. It’s very likely that some disgruntled renters took issue with unsupervised children in the facility and demanded a policy change. (For the record, I have three kids and am pregnant with my fourth. I love kids, but my salons all have strict “no children” policies.)

It’s for any business owner operating a for-profit business. So, renters can be sued for discrimination also since they’re business owners. 🙂