This section documents the laws and regulations concerning various forms of body modification. As new laws are passed, we will endeavor to add those laws as soon as possible. Your help is needed. If you know of a law or regulation that we do not currently have indexed on this site, please email us at Kabalist@BMEworld.com. We will respond as soon as we can.


Australia:

Canberra: Business Law : ACT Laws of specific Application
Victoria/Melbourne: Standards of Practice for Tattooing and Body Piercing
Skin Penetration Procedures Act 1994

Canada:

BC/Victoria: Committee of the Whole Minutes - August 8/96
BC/Victoria: Council Minutes - August 22/96

United Kingdom:

skin and ear piercing

United States:

ABAA State Regulations
Arizona: The City of Mesa, Arizona Planning Department, New Code Revisions
Arizona: HB 2124
Arizona: HB2488 - 422R - I Ver - Title: tattoo parlors; minors
Arizona: HB 2124
Arizona: HB2488 - 422R - I Ver - Title: tattoo parlors; minors
Arizona: HB2513 - 431R - I Ver - Title: tattoo parlors; minors
Arizona: SB1102 - 422R - H Ver - Title: tattoo parlors; minors
Arizona: UAJ Community News Service: Tattoos taboo without parental permission by Ann McBride
Army Link News: Piercings prohibited for most soldiers on post By Gerry Gilmore
California: The Daily Aztec: Minors now need parental permission to get piercings
California: Official seeks to plug hole in body piercing for teens
California: The Sacremento Bee: Under their skin: A new law makes it tougher for kids to have their bodies pierced for jewelry. Will it stop them? By Bob Sylva
California: The Seattle Times, Today's Top Stories: Law would require parent's OK for piercing
California:...Synopsis OnLine · Assemblyman George Runner
Colorado: Council cracks down on grafitti By Susan Greene
Colorado: Laws won't stop kids from tattooing (NEW 1/30)
Colorado: What's Up : Health officials evaluating body art regulations By Cate Terwilliger (NEW 1/16)
Connecticut: TH online: 15 holes too many for store
Delaware: (75615.htm)
Florida: Body piercing regulation
Florida: HRS/Body-Piercing/Tattooing
Florida: PCB tones down tattooing, piercing ordinance
Florida: The House Bills - hb1899
Florida: The House Bills - hb1899c1
Florida: The House Bills - hb1899e1
Florida: The Senate Bills - sb1982
Florida: S606: Body-piercing Salons
GENERAL: The Concord Monitor: Tourist town relegates new body piercing shops to industrial areas
GENERAL: Employers can restrict nose rings, tattoos, green hair (P) (NEW 2/6)
Georgia: SB 508 - Cruelty to Children - parent's consent for body piercing
Georgia: Ga SB 508
Hawaii: Despite regulations, body art worries parents -- Pacific Business News (Honolulu) -- 10-07-96
Hawaii: Honolulu Star-Bulletin Local News
Illinois: Parents pleased Senate passes tattoo consent bill
Indiana: Hammond council eyes tattoo regulations
Indiana: Kokomo Tribune - 12/11 Body piercing laws make hole lot of sense
Iowa: Body piercers like Iowa House action setting age limit
Iowa: HF 2251 ... public health by providing for the regulation of body ...
Kentucky: Lexington Herald-Leader: City bid to regulate piercers has hole By Brian Bennett
Kentucky: Lexington Herald-Leader: Lip-piercing suspension upheld by judge in Pulaski by Gail Gibson
Kentucky: Lexington Herald-Leader: Lip-piercing suspension upheld by judge in Pulaski by Gail Gibson
Kentucky: Lexington Hearlald-Leader: Piercer needles state about standards By Brian Bennett (P)
Kentucky: Lexington Hearlald-Leader: Piercer needles state about standards By Brian Bennett (P)
Maine: September 24, 1997 Rule-Making Notice - State of Maine - USA
Maryland: BILL INFO-1997 Regular Session-SB 284
Maryland: BILL INFO-1997 Regular Session-HB 386
Massachusetts: NewStandard: Dartmouth addresses piercing by Joe Beaird (NEW 1/30)
Massachusitts: JOINT COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS
Massachusetts: NewStandard:The point of body piercing By Rick Burnes
Michigan: Tattoos, body piercing could be regulated
Michigan: Tattoos, body piercing could be regulated
Michigan: Tattoos, body piercing could be regulated
Michigan: Tattoos, body piercing could be regulated
Minnesota: Council Minutes for 03-17-97
Missouri: Children will need parebtal consent for tattooing
Missouri: Hannibal Courier-Post Community Story House proposal would put bite in tattoo rules 1/8/98
Missouri: HB0998
Missouri: HB998 - TATTOOS AND BODY PIERCING - Kissell, Don R.
Missouri: MSSC's The Chart: MISSOURI LEGISLATURE by Tammy Spicer
Nebraska: theIndependent.com Head: Kearney regulates tattoos but not body piercing 11/13/98 by Melanie Brandert
Nebraska: theIndependent.com: Local officials seek to regulate tattooing, body piercing by Melanie Brandert (P) (NEW 2/2)
New Hampshire: 1996 New Hampshire House HB 1473
New Hampshire: Tattoo Practitioner
New Hampshire: Tattoo Practitioner (NEW 1/16)
New Jersey: Body piercing parlor files suit
New Jersey: Hawthorne considers repealing ban on tattoo parlors
New Jersey: New Jersey Newswatch (1/11)
New Jersey: New Jersey State Board of Medical Examiners, Agenda of 01/08/97
New Jersey: Parental OK for body piercings clears Assembly
New Jersey: Senate sends governor bill to regulate tattoos, piercing
North Dakota: Bismarck Tribune : Piercing pricks parents by Viki Voskuil
Ohio: Ohio Revised Code - Section 3730.07
Ohio: Ohio teen fights for tongue-jewelry rights (NEW 1/17)
Ohio: Section 3730
Ohio: Section 3730.09
Ohio: Section 3730.10
Ohio: Session Law from the 122nd General Assembly of the State of Ohio (search piercing or 3730)
Oklahoma: news Generation-Y: Committee punctures body piercing bill 2/27/98
Oklahoma: Keating signs body-piercing law
Oklahoma: Oklahoma house passes bill to ban piercing on minors
Oklahoma: Oklahoma house passes bill to ban piercing on minors
Oklahoma: Piercing problems with proposed law
Oklahoma: State House passes bill to ban body piercing on minors
Oregon: Body Piercing Program
Oregon: Body Piercing Program (NEW 1/24)
Oregon: HDLP_331_200_1998
Oregon: HDLP_331_205_1998
Oregon: HDLP_331_210_1998
Oregon: HDLP_331_215_1998
Oregon: HDLP_331_220_1998
Oregon: HDLP_331_225_1998
Oregon: (hHR041495.txt)
Pensylvania: Amendment to H.B. 332
Pensylvania: What's the buzz?
Pennsylvania: U-Wire: Body artists may face new state health regulations
South Carolina/Myrtle Beach: Issue 8, July 3, 1996
Texas: City of Dallas, City Secretary, 5-8-96 City Council Minutes
Specialty Coverage Market Reports: Beauticians Need Stylized Coverage
Utah: H.B. 390 Bill Documents - 1998 General Session
Washington: Tattooists back parental consent bill
Wisconsin: AB 468 - Wisconsin Health Policy Report
Wisconsin: Piercing issues By Alyssa Berman and Katie Quirk (NEW 1/22)

United States Military:

USAF
USAF: Airman: Getting the Blues by Tech Sgt Pat McKenna
USAF: Questions and answers on body art and piercing
USAF Regulations
USAF Regulations
USAF: WRAL OnLine - Tattoos and Piercings? Not in the Air Force
USN: Naval Academy Skin Standards (NEW 1/16)
USN Uniform Regulations