Laws and rules: Tattoos, body piercing, and body art

• Substitute Senate Bill 5391: Body art, body piercing, tattooing — Regulation
  (The bill passed by the 2009 legislature that requires licensing for tattoo artists, body piercers, and body artists and their shops by July 1, 2010.)
• RCW 18.235: Uniform regulation of business and professions act
• WAC 246-145: Electrology and tattooing standards for sterilization procedures and infection control

Note: The Revised Code of Washington (RCW) and the Washington Administrative Code (WAC) are the laws, rules, and regulations of Washington State.