Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 62 > Chapter 38 > Part 3 - Body Piercing

• Approval: means written approval from the department of health indicating that the body piercing establishment has been inspected and meets all the terms of this part and the applicable rules. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• Body piercing: includes ear piercing except when the ear piercing procedure is performed on the ear with an ear piercing gun. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• Body piercing establishment: means any place, whether temporary or permanent, stationary or mobile, wherever situated, where body piercing is performed, including any area under the control of the operator. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• Body piercing paraphernalia: means equipment, needles, body ornaments, or other instruments used or intended for use in piercing a part of the body for nonmedical purposes. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• body piercing procedure: means the service performed or the procedure utilized for body piercing. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• Business: means any entity that provides body piercing services or procedures for compensation. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of health or the designee of the commissioner. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Department: means the department of health. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• Disinfecting: means a process that kills or destroys nearly all disease-producing microorganisms, with the exception of bacterial spores. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• License: means the issuance of a license to perform body piercing to an individual, partnership, firm, association or corporation. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• Minor: means an individual under the age of eighteen (18). See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• operator: means a person who controls, operates, conducts or manages a body piercing establishment, whether or not the operator is actually engaging in body piercing. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Patron: means a person requesting and receiving body piercing services. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• permit: means the issuance of a written permit by the department to a body piercing establishment stating that the establishment, after inspection, was found to be in compliance with this part. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Premises: means the physical location of an establishment that offers and performs body piercing services. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• Proof of age: means a driver license or other generally accepted means of identification that describes the individual as eighteen (18) years of age or older, contains a photograph or other likeness of the individual and appears on its face to be valid. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• signed: includes a mark, the name being written near the mark and witnessed, or any other symbol or methodology executed or adopted by a party with intention to authenticate a writing or record, regardless of being witnessed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Sterilization: means holding in an autoclave for fifteen (15) minutes at fifteen (15) pounds of pressure and at a temperature of two hundred and fifty degrees Fahrenheit (250°. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• Sterilize: means a process by which all forms of microbial life, including bacteria, viruses, spores, and fungi, are destroyed. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• technician: means a person at least eighteen (18) years of age who engages in the practice or service of body piercing, regardless of the type of body ornament utilized or the body area to be pierced. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105