ENTITLED, An Act to provide for the regulation of saline tattoo removal by municipalities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
    Section 1. That § 9-34-17 be amended to read:
    9-34-17. Any municipality may regulate the practice of tattooing, saline tattoo removal, and body piercing by licensing practitioners of tattooing, saline tattoo removal, or body piercing; inspecting tattoo, saline tattoo removal, and body piercing establishments; and establishing standards for sanitation that are at least as stringent as those adopted by the Department of Health under § 34-1-17.

    Terms used in this section mean:

            (1)    "Tattooing," to make marks or designs into the skin by puncturing it and inserting indelible colors. The term includes microblading and similar techniques used to partially or fully simulate natural hair;

            (2)    "Saline tattoo removal," inserting a saline solution in skin to lighten or remove an existing tattoo. The term does not include the use of other acids or of lasers as described in § 36-4-8.2;

            (3)    "Body piercing," to place a permanent or temporary foreign object in a person's body for a decorative or other nonmedical purpose by a person not directly under the supervision of a licensed physician as defined by § 36-4-11.
    Section 2. That § 34-1-17 be amended to read:
    34-1-17. The Department of Health may adopt and enforce, subject to chapter 1-26, orders and rules necessary to preserve and protect the public health and may regulate, by requiring licenses or other appropriate means, control, and, in proper cases, prohibit and suppress any of the following matters:

            (1)    The manufacture into articles of commerce, other than food, of diseased, tainted, or

decayed animal or vegetable matter;

            (2)    The location of cemeteries and the removal and burial of the dead;

            (3)    The management of lying-in houses and boarding places for infants, and the treatment of infants therein;

            (4)    The construction and equipment, in respect to sanitary conditions, of schools, hospitals, prisons, and other public institutions;

            (5)    The treatment in hospitals and elsewhere of persons suffering from any communicable disease, the disinfection and quarantine of persons and places in case of disease, and the reporting of sickness and deaths from disease;

            (6)    The distribution of biological products to be used for the prevention and treatment of communicable diseases;

            (7)    The diagnosis, control, and treatment of tuberculosis; and

            (8)    The minimum sanitation requirements for tattooing, saline tattoo removal, and body piercing as defined in § 9-34-17, including premises, equipment, methods of operation, and freedom from communicable disease.

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An Act to provide for the regulation of saline tattoo removal by municipalities.

========================= I certify that the attached Act originated in the HOUSE as Bill No. 1176 ____________________________ Chief Clerk =========================     ____________________________ Speaker of the House Attest: ____________________________ Chief Clerk ____________________________ President of the Senate Attest: ____________________________ Secretary of the Senate House Bill No. 1176 File No. ____ Chapter No. ______

========================= Received at this Executive Office this _____ day of _____________ , 20____ at ____________ M. By _________________________ for the Governor ========================= The attached Act is hereby approved this ________ day of ______________ , A.D., 20___ ____________________________ Governor ========================= STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA, ss. Office of the Secretary of State Filed ____________ , 20___ at _________ o'clock __ M. ____________________________ Secretary of State By _________________________ Asst. Secretary of State