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Ord 854 Page 2 “Body painting” means applying color, pigment or paint to an area of the skin that exceeds three (3) square inches. “Body scarification or scarring” means any method by which a scar is applied to or left upon a body. “Clean” means the absence of dirt, grease, rubbish, garbage, odor and other offensive, unsightly, or extraneous matter. “Good repair” means free of corrosion, breaks, cracks, chips, pitting, excessive wear and tear, leaks, obstructions, and similar defects so as to constitute a good and sound condition. “Enforcement officer” means the Chief of Police or designee. “Operate” means to own, manage or conduct, or to have control, charge or custody over. “Specialist” means that person performing the tattooing, piercing, branding or painting within a licensed tattoo and body piercing enterprise. “Tattoo and body piercing enterprise” means a place of business where all or some of the following services are provided to the public for consideration: tattooing, body piercing, body branding, body scarring or body painting. “Tattooing” means the marking of the skin of a person by insertion of permanent colors by introducing them through puncture of the skin. “Body art” means physical body adornment using, but not limited to, tattooing and body piercing. Body art does not include practices and procedures that are performed by a licensed medical or dental professional if the procedure is within the professional’s scope of practice. “Body art establishment” means any structure or venue, whether permanent, temporary, or mobile, where body art is performed. Mobile establishments include vehicle-mounted units, either motorized or trailered, and readily moveable without disassembling and where body art procedures are regularly performed in more than one geographic location. “Body piercing” means the penetration or puncturing of the skin by any method for the purpose of inserting jewelry or other objects in or through the body. Body piercing also includes branding, scarification, suspension, subdermal implantation, microdermal and tongue bifurcation. Body piercing does not include the piercing of the outer perimeter or the lobe of the ear using a presterilized single-use stud-and-clasp ear-piercing system. “Tattooing” means any method of placing indelible ink or other pigments into or under the skin or mucosa with needles or any other instruments used to puncture the skin, resulting in permanent coloration of the skin or mucosa. Tattooing also includes micropigmentation and cosmetic tattooing.