A. It shall be unlawful for any person to own or operate a body art establishment or to perform body art procedures unless such procedures are performed in a body art establishment with a current permit from the department.

B. The following information shall be kept on file on the premises of a body art establishment and available for inspection by the department:

C. The following information must be prominently displayed in the body art establishment and shall not be altered or defaced in any manner:

D. The body art operator/technician must be a minimum of 18 years of age.

E. Smoking, eating, drinking alcoholic beverages, or being under the influence of drugs or alcohol by either the operator or client is prohibited in the body art workstation, cleaning area, and instrument storage areas.

F. Operators/technicians shall refuse service to any person who, based on reasonable observation and inquiry, is under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

G. The operator/technician shall maintain a high degree of personal cleanliness, conform to hygienic practices, and wear clean clothes when performing body art procedures. Before performing body art procedures, operators/technicians must thoroughly wash their hands in hot running water with liquid soap, then rinse hands and dry with disposable paper towels. This shall be done as often as necessary to remove contaminants.

H. In performing body art procedures, the operator shall wear disposable medical gloves. Gloves must be changed if they become contaminated by contact with any nonclean surfaces or objects, by contact with a third person, or when interruptions in the procedure occur to prevent cross-contamination. The gloves shall be discarded, at a minimum, after the completion of each procedure on an individual client, and hands shall be washed before the next set of gloves is donned. Under no circumstances shall a single pair of gloves be used on more than one person. The use of disposable medical gloves does not preclude or substitute for hand-washing procedures as part of a good personal hygiene program.

I. If, while performing a body art procedure, the operator’s/technician’s glove is pierced, torn, or otherwise contaminated, the procedure delineated in subsection (H) of this section shall be repeated immediately. The contaminated gloves shall be immediately discarded and the hands washed thoroughly (see above) before a fresh pair of gloves is applied. Any item or instrument used for body art that is contaminated during the procedure shall be discarded and replaced immediately with a new disposable item or a new sterilized instrument or item before the procedure resumes.

J. Contaminated waste, as defined in these regulations, that may release liquid blood or body fluids when compressed or may release dried blood or body fluids when handled must be placed in an approved container marked with the international biohazard symbol. It must then be disposed of by a waste hauler approved by the department or, at a minimum, in compliance with 29 C.F.R. Part 1910.1030, “Occupational Exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens.” Sharps ready for disposal shall be disposed of in approved sharps containers. Sharps containers must be replaced routinely and not be allowed to overfill. Contaminated waste that does not release liquid blood or body fluids when compressed or does not release dried blood or body fluids when handled may be placed in a covered receptacle and disposed of through normal approved disposal methods.

K. No person shall perform any body art procedure, including ear piercing, upon a person under the age of 18 years without the physical presence, consent, and proper identification of a parent, legal custodial parent, or legal guardian. Nothing in this section is intended to require an operator to perform any body art procedure on a person under 18 years of age with parental or guardian consent.

L. No person who is not licensed pursuant to A.R.S. Title 32 shall administer anesthesia during the course of any procedure involving the branding, scarifying, tattooing, implanting, mutilating, or piercing of the body of another person.

M. Any skin or mucosa surface to receive a body art procedure shall be free of rash or any visible infection.

N. The skin of the operator/technician shall be free of rash or infection. No person or operator affected with boils, infected wounds, open sores, abrasions, keloids, weeping dermatological lesions, or acute respiratory infection (which may include, but is not limited to, the common cold, influenza, pneumonia, and tuberculosis) shall work in any area of a body art establishment in any capacity in which there is a likelihood that that person could contaminate body art equipment, supplies, or working surfaces with body substances or pathogenic organisms.

O. Operators with hepatitis B or other bloodborne communicable diseases are prohibited from performing body art procedures.

P. Proof shall be provided upon request of the department that all operators/technicians have either completed or were offered and declined, in writing, the hepatitis B vaccination series. This offering shall be included as a pre-employment requirement. A copy of the written declination shall be submitted to the department and kept by the facility permit holder. [Code 2006 § 9-5-8. Ord. 2003-01, 1-14-2003; amended during 2012 codification].