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Rules Committee delays body‑art registration ordinance while DPH posts updated fee notice
Summary
The Department of Public Health reintroduced an ordinance to require registration and annual permits for tattooing and other body‑art services and to add related fees. The committee approved amendments and continued the item so the clerk can post the required fee advertisement.
The Rules Committee on Jan. 16 continued consideration of an ordinance from the Department of Public Health that would require body‑art practitioners and facilities to register with the city and pay newly set fees.
Dr. Johnson Ojo of the Department of Public Health said the ordinance would repeal scattered provisions in the health code, add a new article requiring practitioners to register and renew annually, require permits and annual renewals for permanent and temporary body‑art facilities, and amend the San Francisco business and tax regulations code to add fees. He said the legislation implements California’s AB 300 (the Safe Body Art law) and asked the committee for a continuance so the clerk could post the legally required fee advertisement: “we would like to ask for a continuance until February 16, a rules committee hearing, to enable the clerk time to post the required fee advertisement, publicizing the new proposed fee schedule.”
Supervisor Norman Yee questioned why one facility fee in the new schedule decreased while most fees rose. Dr. Ojo said staff reviewed other counties and adjusted fees for San Francisco’s cost of doing business and fiscal‑year timing; he explained that some application fees are structured so applicants may be refunded if inspections cost less than the fee collected. Dr. Ojo told the committee the department revised the fee schedule after the ordinance’s first introduction last year and to account for the new fiscal year.
Supervisor David Campos moved to amend the ordinance as described by Dr. Ojo; the chair noted no objection and the motion passed. The committee then moved and passed a motion to continue the item to a Rules Committee meeting in February so the required public fee notice can be posted and reviewed.
The ordinance would align local rules with the State’s Safe Body Art law and set local permitting, registration and fee procedures. The continuance means the committee will revisit the ordinance after the fee notice is posted and the required public‑notice period has elapsed.
