N.Y. Public Health Law 462 – Application of article
§ 462. Application of article. 1. This Article shall not apply to or affect a physician duly licensed under article one hundred thirty-one of the education law or x-ray technicians.
Terms Used In N.Y. Public Health Law 462
- Body piercing: shall mean the piercing of any part of the body, except the ear. See N.Y. Public Health Law 460
- Body piercing specialist: shall mean any person who performs body piercing on the body of any other person. See N.Y. Public Health Law 460
- Body piercing studio: shall mean any premises in which the body piercing specialist conducts such practice. See N.Y. Public Health Law 460
- Commissioner: shall mean the commissioner of health. See N.Y. Public Health Law 460
- Officer: shall mean the public official with primary responsibility for the enforcement of the state sanitary code within a county, or within a city with a population of one million or more persons. See N.Y. Public Health Law 460
- Tattoo: shall mean a mark on the body of a person made with indelible ink or pigments injected beneath the outer layer of the skin. See N.Y. Public Health Law 460
- Tattooist: shall mean any person who applies a tattoo to the body of any other person. See N.Y. Public Health Law 460
2. This article shall not apply to, affect, or restrict the ability of a city, town, village, or county to enact a local law or ordinance prohibiting or restricting body piercing or tattooing within such city, town, village or county.
3. Nothing contained in this article shall be construed to limit the duty or power of an officer to act with regard to an immediate threat to the health of the customers of a body piercing specialist or tattooist or body piercing studio or tattoo studio or the community in which it is located, or to alter or abridge any of the duties and powers now or hereafter existing in the commissioner, state district health officers, county boards of health, county commissioners of health or local boards of health.