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<br />CASS COUNTY <br />REGULATIONS FOR OWNERS AND OPERATORS <br />OF BODY ART ESTABLISHMENTS <br /> <br />The following regulations, promulgated by the Fargo Cass County Health <br />Department and approved by resolution of the Board of County Commissioners <br />of Cass County on the day of , 2004, as authorized by <br />Cass County (Home Rule), must be posted in all Body Art Establishments in a <br />prominent location so that they may be read by clients and by operators of a Body <br />Art Establishment. <br /> <br />Section I. Defmitions <br /> <br />The following terms used in these regulations shall be defined as follows: <br /> <br />1.1 <br /> <br />"AFTERCARE" means written instructions given to the dient, specific to <br />the body art procedure(s) rendered, about caring for the body art and <br />surrounding area. These instructions will include information about when <br />to seek medical treatment, if necessary. <br />"ANTISEPTIC" means an agent that reduces disease-causing micro- <br />organisms on human skin or mucosa. <br />"BODY ART" means the practice of physical body adomment by <br />permitted establishments and operators using, but not limited to, the <br />following techniques: body piercing, tattooing, cosmetic tattooing, <br />branding, and scarification. This definition does not include practices that <br />are considered medical procedures by the state board of medical <br />examiners, such as implants under the skin, which shall not be performed <br />in a body art establishment. Nor does this definition include, for the <br />purposes of this Article, piercing of the non-cartilaginous outer perimeter <br />or lobe of the ear with pre-sterilized single-use stud-and-clasp ear-piercing <br />systems. <br />"BODY ART ESTABLISHMENT" means any place or premise where <br />the practices of body art, whether or not for profit, are performed, except <br />where such practices are performed by a physician or surgeon who has a <br />current license for the practice of medicine issued by the State of North <br />Dakota pursuant to Chapter 43-17 of the North Dakota Century Code. <br />"BODY PIERCING" means puncturing or penetration of the skin of a <br />person with pre-sterilized single-use needles and the insertion of pre- <br />sterilized jewelry or other adornment thereto in the opening, except that <br />puncturing the outer perimeter or lobe of the ear with a pre-sterilized <br />single-use stud-and- clasp-ear-piercing system shall not be included in this <br />definition. <br />"CONTAMINATED WASTE" means any liquid or semi-liquid blood or <br />other potentially infectious materials; contaminated items that would <br />release blood or other potentially infectious materials in a liquid or semi- <br />liquid state if compressed; items that are caked with dried blood or other <br /> <br />1.2 <br /> <br />1.3 <br /> <br />1.4 <br /> <br />1.5 <br /> <br />1.6 <br />