Connecticut
Body Art Sterilization Guidelines
Year: 2000
Number: 19A-92A
Name: 19A-00--0092--AK.DOC
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) "Physician" means a person licensed
to practice medicine and surgery pursuant to chapter 370.
(3) "Physician assistant" means a person
licensed pursuant to section 20-12b.
(4) "Registered nurse" means a person
licensed to practice nursing pursuant to subsection (a) of section
20-87a.
(5) "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 advanced practice registered nurse rendering
service under the direction of a physician, a registered nurse
rendering service under the supervision, control and responsibility
of a 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 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.
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