Since mid-1997 the practice of tattooing has been legalized in New York City - **🔰
VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔City with the introduction of Subchapter 7, entitled "Tattoo
Regulation Act "to Chapter 23 of Title 17 of the City's Administrative Code. The Act set
forth requirements for obtaining tattoo license and regulates tattoo artists to ensure that
they are practicing basic health and safety procedures.
18 years of age or older - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔intending to engage in the
practice of tattooing shall apply to the commissioner for a tattoo license. Each applicant for
tattoo license shall take an examination administered by the department in accordance with
rules promulgated by the commissioner regarding health issues relating to tattooing.
The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) licenses - **🔰 VERIFIED
ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Tattoo artists -no tattoo parlors. Tattoo license applications are available
at the department of Consumer Affairs Citywide License center, 42 Broadway, 5h floor, New
York, NY 10004. Tattoo licenses are valid for two years.
No tattoo may be applied to a person younger than 18 years. - **🔰 VERIFIED
ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Evidence of the age of prospective clients must be examined.
DOHMH - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔inspect tattoo parlors on a complaint basis.
Non-adherence to the provisions of the "Tattoo Regulation Act" can result in violations and
penalties as established in the Act.
AIDS - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔The last stage of infection caused by the human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which most often results in severe damage to the body's
immune system.
Applicator - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔A term referring to either single-use and
reusable spatula or similar devices.
, Antiseptic - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔A chemical agent that destroys or inhibits
microorganisms on skin or tissue and has an effect of limiting or optimally preventing
infection.
Autoclave - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Equipment used for the sterilization of heat
resistant instruments
Bacteria - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Microscopic organisms that are too small to be
visible to the naked eye. Bacteria are capable of causing infection when a person is exposed
to them under certain circumstances, such as through abraded skin (e.g. staphylococci,
streptococci).
Bacterial Spores - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Some bacteria are able to survive in
very harsh conditions by enveloping themselves with a thick wall called bacterial spore.
Spores make bacteria resistant to killing. If spores are introduced into the body where
conditions become more favorable -when there's more water or more food available the
bacteria "come to life" again, transforming from a spore back to a vegetative cell that can
cause serious infection. Spores can be destroyed by sterilization only.
Bloodborne infections - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Infections caused by viruses
found in the blood such as hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV) or human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
Body Fluids - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Fluids normally present in the body such
as blood, mucous, sweat, oil, saliva, urine, ooze from a festering sore, or tears. They may
contain infectious microorganisms.
Cleaning - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Refers to the process of removing blood,
other body fluids, organic material, tissue and dirt from the surface of an object by
scrubbing with a brush, detergent and water. Cleaning greatly reduces the number of
microorganisms (including bacterial endospores) on items and is a crucial step in
processing. If items have not first been cleaned, further processing might not be effective.