S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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I N A S S E M B L Y
March 12, 2020
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Introduced by M. of A. WILLIAMS -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring certain
individuals to wait twenty-four hours before getting a face tattoo
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section
468 to read as follows:
§ 468. FACE TATTOO; RESTRICTIONS. NO OWNER, OPERATOR OR EMPLOYEE OF A
TATTOO STUDIO SHALL PERMIT A TATTOO TO BE PLACED ON THE FACE OF A PERSON
BETWEEN EIGHTEEN AND TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF AGE UNLESS SUCH PERSON HAS
WAITED A MINIMUM OF TWENTY-FOUR HOURS AFTER MAKING SUCH TATTOO REQUEST.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15501-01-0