Update for Illinois
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Gov. Rod Blagojevich's office says a bill signed into law by the governor will allow tattoos from age 18 and up by January 1st 2007!!!
For detailed info about this change please search google for
(419 ILCS 54/) Tattoo and Body Piercing Establishment Registration Act
for the state of ILLINOIS.
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State Of IllinoisIllinois Statutes
CHAPTER 720 Criminal Offenses
TITLE III. SPECIFIC OFFENSES
ARTICLE 12. BODILY HARM
720 ILCS 5/12-10
Sec. 12-10. (Tattooing Body of Minor.) Any person, other than a person
licensed to practice medicine in all its branches, who tattoos or offers
to tattoo a person under the age of 21 is guilty of a Class C
misdemeanor.
As used in this Section, to "tattoo" means to insert pigment under the
surface of the skin of a human being, by pricking with a needle or
otherwise, so as to produce an indelible mark or figure visible through
the skin.
91_HB0360 LRB9101168RCks 1 AN ACT to amend the Criminal Code
of 1961 by changing 2 Section 12-10. 3 Be it enacted by the People of the State
of Illinois, 4 represented in the General Assembly: 5 Section 5. The Criminal
Code of 1961 is amended by 6 changing Section 12-10 as follows: 7 (720 ILCS
5/12-10) (from Ch. 38, par. 12-10) 8 Sec. 12-10. Tattooing Body of Minor.)
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Any person, other 9 than a person licensed to practice medicine in all
its 10 branches, who tattoos or offers to tattoo a person under the 11 age of 21
is guilty of a Class C misdemeanor. 12 As used in this Section, to
"tattoo" means to insert 13 pigment under the surface of the skin of a
human being, by 14 pricking with a needle or otherwise, so as to produce an 15
indelible mark or figure visible through the skin. 16 (Source: P.A. 77-2638.)
