Provides for licensing, permitting, and inspection of permanent body art establishments, mobile body art vehicles, and temporary special event body art facilities, as well as registration of body artists, to assure safe practices and minimize the risks of disease. Delegates to the department of public health and environment in conjunction with the local boards of health the authority to license, inspect, and suspend body art facilities, to promulgate rules governing body artists and facilities, including the safety and sanitary conditions of the physical environment where said procedures are practiced, the safety and sterilization of equipment utilized in said procedures, the registration of body artists, and the minimum requirements in education in the prevention of transmission of blood-borne pathogens for individual body artists.
Capital letters indicate new material to be added to existing statute.
Dashes through the words indicate material to be deleted from existing statute. Page 2 piercing. Establishes that it is unlawful to perform any body art procedure on another person who is visibly intoxicated or under the influence of a controlled substance. Creates the body art cash fund for fees collected by the department to administer this article. Enables the department or local board of health to suspend or revoke a license or permit for violations of this article or rules promulgated pursuant to this article or any of the terms, conditions, or provisions of such license or registration.