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Council debates whether to keep local body-art licensing or yield to state oversight

Inver Grove Heights City Council · March 9, 2026
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Summary

At first reading, the council weighed whether to repeal a local body-art licensing chapter and rely on Minnesota Department of Health rules or to retain local regulation and set a numerical cap; staff said there are about four existing establishments and licenses are due May 1.

Counsel Kirk Yernan presented a first reading of an ordinance to amend Title IV, Chapter 9 (body-art establishments), saying the city has two primary options: repeal the local chapter and rely on Minnesota Department of Health licensing, or update local licensing and remove the numerical limit.

Yernan noted the city adopted local licensing in 1998 and that the Minnesota Department of Health…

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