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