TEXT OF LAW:
Sec. 19a-92a. Regulation of persons engaged in tattooing.
Penalty.
(a) For the purposes of this section:
(1) "Advanced practice registered nurse" means a person licensed to perform advanced level nursing practice activities pursuant to subsection
(b) of section 20-87a.
(2) "Osteopathic physician" means a person licensed to practice osteopathy pursuant to chapter 371.
(3) "Physician" means a person licensed to practice medicine and surgery pursuant to chapter 370.
(4) "Physician assistant" means a person licensed pursuant to section 20-12b.
(5) "Registered nurse" means a person licensed to practice nursing pursuant to subsection (a) of section 20-87a.
(6) "Tattooing" means marking or coloring, in an indelible manner, the skin of any person by pricking in coloring matter or by producing scars.
(b) No person shall engage in tattooing except a physician, an osteopathic physician, an advanced practice registered nurse rendering service under the
direction of a physician or osteopathic physician, a registered nurse rendering service under the supervision, control and responsibility of a physician or
osteopathic physician, a physician assistant rendering service under the supervision, control and responsibility of a physician, or a technician rendering
service under the supervision of a physician or osteopathic physician in accordance with regulations adopted by the Department of Public Health pursuant to
subsection (d) of this section.
(c) No person shall tattoo an unemancipated minor under eighteen years of age without the permission of the parent or guardian of such minor.
(d) The Department of Public Health shall, in accordance with chapter 54, adopt such regulations as are necessary to implement the provisions of this
section.
(e) Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than ninety days, or both.
(P.A. 94-105, S. 1, 4; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58.)
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