Hermosa Beach Municipal Code Art. 4 Restrictions

11.36.580 Prohibited procedures and activities.

It is a violation of this chapter for any person to perform or conduct any activities or procedures upon any person that endanger the health or safety of that person, regardless of the consent of the recipient.

An invasive procedure or activity, whether or not such procedure or activity constitutes the practice of medicine under the applicable law, endangers the recipient’s health and safety unless performed by a person possessing medical expertise. Such prohibited procedures and activities include but are not limited to activities or procedures requiring an injection, cutting of skin or subcutaneous tissue or bone, implantation, branding, deep tissue penetration, threading, stapling, suturing, stitching or pocketing of skin or tissue, or any procedure to reduce the size of or close an orifice, or remove or reduce the size of any skin, cartilage, tissue, organ, or appendage or placement of chemicals or substances onto the skin for purposes of scarring or keloid formation or insertion of chemicals or other solutions into or under the skin surface.

Any such procedure or activity shall be conducted only by a licensed medical doctor or by a person specifically authorized by law to conduct the procedure or activity and only when otherwise permitted by law. Such procedure or activity shall only be conducted at a facility approved for the conduct of such procedure or activity by the appropriate authority under the applicable laws. Further, no such procedure or activity shall be conducted by a body art technician unless he or she is specifically authorized by law to perform such procedure or activity.

It is a violation of this chapter for any person to use in the conduct of body art activity or dispense any drug, chemical, agent or device that requires a licensed medical practitioner’s authorization or prescription for use, application or to dispense, without such medical practitioner’s authorization or prescription.