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Lynn Board of Health outlines multi-month rollout of updated body-art regulations after tattoo practitioners raise concerns about fee increases
Summary
Board staff said Lynn will adopt body-art regulations developed by the North Shore Public Health Collaborative and that fees were raised earlier this year; tattoo practitioners raised concerns about higher practitioner and apprentice fees and asked for clearer outreach and an explanation of the process.
The Lynn City Board of Health on May 6 described a multi-month plan to adopt updated body-art (tattoo) regulations developed by the North Shore Public Health Collaborative and addressed community concerns about recent fee increases.
Board staff said the collaborative’s model regulations — already adopted by Beverly and Salem — are being circulated to member communities, and Lynn staff plan listening sessions, trainings and a public hearing before final adoption. “We would like to see, like, the meat of the regulations be the same in every community,” a public health staff member said.
Jonathan Robinson, a tattoo practitioner at…
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