Dc Department of Health Body Art Establishments Final Rulemaking

From Fattys Tattoos and Piercings:

"Friends and fans,

The DC health department has yet over again published torso art laws that are unnecessarily onerous and plush to small business organisation, vast yet unclear, and unacceptable to the body art community as written. These laws are nigh identical to the laws that were proposed in 2015 that were overwhelmingly rejected by the trunk fine art industry and public. If these regulations are immune to stand every bit is this will negatively effect your access to and cost of receiving body art in DC.

We are asking for your support and hope that you will email and/or write DC officials to oppose the DC Department of Health Body Art Establishments Terminal Rulemaking. The comment period ends February fifth so delight ship your annotate past then. Just let them that yous oppose the DC Department of Wellness Body Art Establishments Terminal Rulemaking as written.

Here is their electronic mail: [email protected] & [email protected]

Here is their mailing address:

441 4th st, NW
Suite 520S
Washington, DC
20001

Cheers again for your support and please spread the give-and-take!
Fatty and the Crew

To view the 66 pages of regulations go here. The site is hard to navigate only in the "Agency" search box type "Section of Health" and type in "torso art" in the next search box. They definitely don't go far easy to find the regulations!

In Maryland we take a bones, comprehensive half dozen page fix of standards in place that have been in outcome since 1997. These standards have kept the public prophylactic and take given the industry clear guidelines to follow for over ii decades. These standards are all you need to continue body fine art clean.

Please empathise that co-ordinate to DCHD in that location has NEVER been a reported case of affliction transmission in DC from professional torso art practices. These regulations are non a response to a illness outbreak or unsafe practices from the professional trunk art community. These harsh regulations are an overreaction to DC officials lack of action on providing the public with simple, comprehensive torso art standards which nosotros every bit an industry would support. Comprehensive body art standards protect the public and the body fine art manufacture.

Nosotros hope that after you lot read this follow upwards you volition take a clearer agreement why it is important for you to act and contact [email protected] and [e-mail protected] and oppose the Body Art Final Rulemaking every bit written. Nosotros only accept until Feb 5th so please act shortly!

History:

This battle over regulations began back in 2012 when the DC council passed the Regulation of Body Artists Act that was passed into law. This "act" simply states that DCRA will create a licensing structure for body artists and that DCHD volition create regulations and that they will enforce the licenses and regulations. It has some basic provisions but information technology leaves nearly of the rule making up to DCRA and DCHD.

Issues with the Body Art Act:

The original Trunk Fine art Act limits torso art of minors to only ear piercing procedures (which is fine) Just information technology mandates the use of "piercing guns" for small-scale piercing. Piercing guns are known to cause more damage, are harder to go along sterile and clean, are not sanctioned by the Association of Professional Piercers (the worlds leading authority on everything piercing), and are non used by whatever reputable piercing establishment. Essentially The Torso Fine art Deed (which all of the licensing and regulations are based on) creates a health take a chance for minors!

Issues with licensing:

-The licensing process is unreasonably difficult to navigate and expensive and therefor difficult to comply with. At that place are body artists who were approved to accept the licensing test just the establishment that offers the test ceased to make appointments for the exam due to their inability to handle the influx of torso artists attempting to take the examination. The amount of fourth dimension the torso creative person had to accept the examination was limited past DCRA so now that his timeframe has expired, artist are beingness asked to re-apply and pay the fees again ($265)! Other artists that were able to navigate DC's clumsy arrangement and recently obtain their licenses. The catch is that the licenses expire in April of this year and then these artists volition accept to pay once more and renew their license afterward only being licensed for a few months.

Problems with the regulations:

-The regulations target legitimate business operators but don't focus on the true health safety threat which is the underground trunk artist working from home or at parties. All the burden and scrutiny is on professionals but the chancy operators are free to exercise as they please. Underground operators just don't need to let the inspectors in. Because of this the regulations volition encourage legitimate body artists to shut down and become undercover. I know of one case where this has already happened.

-The regulation gives DCHD intrusive and heavy-handed broad powers in which they can intrude on our businesses unannounced even if no complaint or concerns are present. This would cause a disruption to our business and clients who want privacy when they are receiving trunk fine art. As well at that place are excessive fines and jail time in the regs.

-The laws are at times unclear, and open up to interpretation.

-The regulations create unwarranted and financially burdensome edifice requirements. They require 1 hand washing sink PER WORKSTATION as opposed to just needing a designated hand washing sink that all torso artists have access to. Also for every 4 workstations you lot need an additional hand washing sink. They also crave that studios (that have 5 body artists or more) build an additional bathroom (how does this do good the public?). Creating a new bath, closing your business to build the new bath, waiting for inspectors to show upwardly and unnecessarily taking upwards valuable existent estate would put a huge financial burden on small business. The regulations likewise states that if the power or h2o goes out in your neighborhood that you lot must close your business until the DCHD can ship out an inspector to reopen your concern which has nothing to exercise with keeping a body fine art institution clean and prophylactic. These are just a few examples of the unwarranted and financially burdensome requirements that are in the regulations.

-There is no grandfather clause for licensed businesses (we are already required to accept full general business licenses) who have had a valid Certificate of occupancy and who have a history of operating safely (some of u.s. for 2 decades). We are expected to spend in some cases tens of thousands to retrofit our businesses, not to mention the loss of revenue from having to temporarily close our business for construction.

-The regulations create unwarranted and financially burdensome staffing requirements. Under these regulations we will now need to accept a licensed body artist nowadays AT ALL TIMES during operating hours (even while trunk art is not being done and for body art businesses that have a retail operation) which again makes no sense, doesn't protect public rubber, and simply adds more undue burden and stress to business owners and gives DCHD more ability to fine and penalize our businesses.

-There is a huge double standard when it come to walk in street shops vs. "appointment merely" or private studios which creates an unfair competitive advantage. Because the inspectors cannot just walk in to the latter establishments, they would need to make appointments to inspect them (or only leave them lonely in the case of DCRA) even though some of them are not in compliance and/or don't even have valid Certificates of Occupancy. All inspections should exist scheduled with the shop owner to level the playing field and to respect the privacy of customers.

-Considering in that location are only 12 listed torso fine art establishments in DC on Google, and that according to DCHD at that place has NEVER been a documented case of illness transmission from trunk art existence washed out of a legitimate establishment in DC, these regulations are unwarranted for such a small manufacture that has a perfect tape of maintaining health standards. These regulations are not in response to a health result or disease outbreak, they are the manifestation of the ignorance and/or discrimination of DC lawmakers towards trunk art and the body art customs.

-Overall we in the body art industry feel that we take been targeted and discriminated against from the beginning past DC officials. In past proposals, DC regulators have proposed a "24 hour waiting menses" for all body art procedures which would eliminate all walk-in services (the cornerstone income of all body fine art establishments). They're reasoning for this was adults need to think about this decision for at least 24 hours because if they want body fine art, conspicuously they are either intoxicated or non thinking directly and if they just take a 24-hour interval to call back well-nigh it they will make a good determination. That provision alone makes information technology clear what they call back well-nigh body art and the people who receive body art. All versions of the regulations accept been riddled with requirements that cannot be complied with. Example: draft #2 stated that we could just purchase body art supplies from suppliers in DC (which in that location are none) approved by the Mayor's office. The ongoing pattern shows that at best, DC lawmakers are completely ignorant of body art, our practices, our businesses and our clients needs and expectations. At worst, they are actively trying to sabotage an manufacture that they are inherently hostile towards.

We promise that this follow up has provided you lot with the information you demand to assist support our cause and reach out to DC officials to oppose these regulations.

Cheers for your consideration."

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Source: https://www.popville.com/2018/02/no-more-body-art-in-dc-we-need-your-support/

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