Long Beach Municipal Code Ch. 5.78 Tattooing

The following words and phrases as used in this Chapter shall have the meanings attached to them in this Section unless otherwise clearly apparent from the context:

A. "Tattooing" means and includes the act or process of marking or coloring the skin of any person by the insertion of pigment under or in the skin or by the production of scars.

(Ord. C-6260 § 1 (part), 1986)

A. Each and every person engaged in the art of tattooing or desiring to carry on the business of tattooing or conducting or maintaining a place where tattooing is practiced, shall make a written application to the Director of Financial Management, on forms prescribed by the City Health Officer, for a permit to conduct the business. The application shall be signed and sworn to by the applicant and shall state the true or fictitious name or names of the applicant, his age, present street address, and other address or addresses where applicant may have lived or carried on such business during the six (6) months immediately preceding the date of the application; the name under which, and place where the applicant proposes to conduct the business.

B. The application shall also include a photograph in duplicate of the applicant, of a size prescribed by the Director of Financial Management, the photograph to be attached to the original permit application, and one (1) to the permit, if a permit to engage in or conduct or carry on the business is granted the applicant.

C. The permit application shall be transmitted by the Director of Financial Management to the City Health Officer, and the permit applied for shall not be issued to the applicant until a satisfactory report is made by the Health Officer that the proposed place of business complies with the laws and ordinances, and conforms with the rules and regulations of the Board of Health.

(Ord. C-6260 § 1 (part), 1986)

Any person owning, maintaining or conducting a place where tattooing is practiced, or practicing the art of tattooing, shall pay a permit fee established by resolution of the City Council adopted pursuant to Section 5.04.040.

(Ord. C-6260 § 1 (part), 1986)

No person shall have in his employ any person engaged in the art of tattooing unless such person holds a permit from the City authorizing said person to engage in said art.

(Ord. C-6260 § 1 (part), 1986)

The Health Officer or any of his duly authorized agents shall have the right to enter and inspect any place where tattooing is practiced for the purpose of determining whether same is being conducted, managed or carried on in compliance with the rules and regulations and sanitary requirements of the Health Department.

(Ord. C-6260 § 1 (part), 1986)