55-96- A 1793 - Sanitary Code - Tattooing

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SUBSTITUTED AT TABLE FOR Ord. No. 55-A-96 (f/k/a 56-96) Placed on lst Reading 11/18/96; Znd Reading 12/2/96. ORDINANCE NO. 55-A-96 BY:Boscia, Corrigan, Flannery, George, Roth, Seelie, Smith AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE enacting Title Nineteen, Chapter 1793, to thc Sanitary. Code of the Codi fled Ordinances of the City of Lakewood in order to regulate the practice of tattooing. WHEREAS, the Division of Health for the City of Lakewood, Ohio, has authority to adopt regulations tbr the public healths the prevention or restriction of disease, and the prevention, abatement or suppression of nuisances pursuant to Ohio Revised Code 3707.01 and Ohio Revised Code 3709.20 and/or 3709.2 I; and WHEREAS, many diseases may be spread through improperly sanitized needles or instruments used in invasive procedures on the human body; and WHEREAS, tattooing uses needles and other instruments in invasive procedures on the human body; and WHEREAS, this ordinance, is an emergency measure which is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety in the City of Lakewood, and for the further reason that immediate action is necessary in order to ensure the prevent/on of the communication of any disease through the practice of tattooing; now therefore, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, STATE OF OHIO Section 1. That the Sanitary Code of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Lakewood be and the same are hereby supplemented by enacting nexv Title Nineteen, Chapter 1793, thereof to read as follows: 1793.0t DEFINITIONS. As used in this Chapter: (A) The term "Health Commissioner" shall mean the administrative official charged with the duty of creating policy, and administering the regulations and laws which promote the health and sanitation of the citizens of the City of Lakewood. (B) The term "Health OfficeF' shall mean a duly authorized employee of the Division of Health for the City of Lakewood. (C) The term "certificate of inspection" shall mean written approval from the health officer or his authorized representative that said tattooing establishment has been inspected and meets all of the terms of this ordinance. (D)The term "operator" shall mean any individual, firm, company, corporation or association that owns or operates an establishment where tattooing is performed and any individual who performs or practices the art of tattooing on the person of another. The terms "tattoo", "tattooed" or "tattooing" refer to any method of placing designs, letters, scrolls, figures, symbols or any other marks upon or under thc skin with ink or any other substance resulting in the coloration of the skin by the aid of needles or any other instruments designed to touch or puncture thc skin. (F) Tattoo "establishment" means the location wherein tattooing is pertbrrned.