Kansas Tattoo Laws

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Kansas Tattoo Laws

65-1941. Same; license required to perform certain activities or engage in certain advertising; exceptions; penalty; action to enjoin unauthorized activities; cease and desist orders.
(a) No person, including a permanent color technician and tattoo artist, shall perform tattooing, display a sign or in any other way advertise or purport to be a permanent color technician and tattoo artist unless that person holds a valid license issued by the board. No person shall perform body piercing, display a sign or in any other way advertise or purport to be in the business of body piercing unless that person holds a valid license issued by the board. This act does not prevent or affect the use of tattooing, permanent color technology or body piercing by a physician, a person under the control and supervision of a physician, a licensed dentist, a person under the control and supervision of a licensed dentist, an individual performing tattooing, permanent color technology or body piercing solely on such individual's body or any other person specifically permitted to use electrolysis or tattooing by law.

(b) Violation of subsection (a) is a class A nonperson misdemeanor.

65-1940. Licensure of tattooing and body piercing; definitions.

As used in this act, unless the context otherwise requires:

(a) "Board" means the Kansas state board of cosmetology.

(b) "Director" means the executive director of the board.

(c) "Department" means the department of health and environment.

(d) "Secretary" means the secretary of health and environment.

(e) "Licensed permanent color technician and tattoo artist" means a person licensed under this act to practice tattooing or permanent color technology, or both.

(f) "Permanent color technician and tattoo artist" means a person who practices tattooing or permanent color technology, or both pursuant to this act.

(g) "Body piercing" means puncturing the skin of a person by aid of needles or other instruments designed or used to puncture the skin for the purpose of inserting removable jewelry or other objects through the human body, except puncturing the external part of the human earlobe shall not be included in this definition. This act shall not be construed to authorize a licensed body piercer to implant or embed foreign objects into the human body or otherwise to engage in the practice of medicine and surgery.

(h) "Physician" means a person licensed to practice medicine and surgery by the state board of healing arts.

(i) "Tattoo" means the indelible mark, figure or decorative design introduced by insertion of nontoxic dyes or pigments into or under the subcutaneous portion of the skin upon the body of a live human being.

(j) "Tattooing" means the process by which the skin is marked or colored by insertion of nontoxic dyes or pigments into or under the subcutaneous portion of the skin so as to form indelible marks for cosmetic or figurative purposes.

(k) "Tattoo facility" means any room or space or any part thereof where tattooing is practiced or where the business of tattooing is conducted.

(l) "Body piercing facility" means any room space, or any part thereof, where body piercing is practiced or where the business of body piercing is conducted.

(m) "Permanent color technology" means the process by which the skin is marked or colored by insertion of nontoxic dyes or pigments into or under the subcutaneous portion of the skin so as to form indelible marks for cosmetic or figurative purposes