Hawaii Administrative Rules
Title 11 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Subtitle 1 - GENERAL DEPARTMENTAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 17 - TATTOO ARTIST
Section 11-17-7 - Restrictions
Current through February, 2024
(a) It shall be unlawful to tattoo any person who is under the influence of intoxicating substances. These substances include but shall not be limited to alcohol, drugs, paints, and glues.
(b) It shall be unlawful to tattoo any person under the age of eighteen years without the written consent of the parents or legal guardian. All written consent shall be kept on file in the tattoo shop.
(c) No person with any disease in a communicable form or suspected of having such disease shall engage in tattooing. Such diseases may include but shall not be limited to the common cold, influenza, tuberculosis, scabies, impetigo, syphilis, chickenpox, measles (rubella), German measles (rubella), mumps, whooping cough, hepatitis, infection on hands or arms, sore throat or jaundice. The director may require a certificate signed by a duly licensed physician stating that the tattoo artist is free from communicable disease before returning to work.