Criminal Penalty

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Any person, firm, or corporation performing body art without a valid permit shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Code 1981, §31-40-7, enacted by Ga. L. 1994, p. 446, § 2; Ga. L. 2019, p. 462, § 2-1/SB 214.)

The 2019 amendment, effective July 1, 2019, substituted "performing body art" for "operating a tattoo studio" near the beginning and deleted "or performing tattooing outside of a licensed tattoo studio" following "valid permit" near the middle of this Code section.

Code Commission notes.

- Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1994, "licensed" was substituted for "license".


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