It is the intent of this chapter to prevent public health risks and potential secondary effects that could result from body art activities, a collective term for any single activity or combination of activities defined as tattooing, body piercing, or permanent cosmetics. The City Council finds that body art activities involve invasive procedures that present a risk of transmitting to clients and employees blood-borne pathogens for serious infections unless stringent sanitary protocols followed. The City Council also finds that the presence of body art establishments in areas frequented by families and young children, in close proximity to sensitive uses, and in close proximity to other body art uses, and late night activities at body art establishments, could have adverse secondary impacts to the community. These types of activities could cause parents to keep their children away from areas with such uses, residents to shop elsewhere, and businesses to move to alternative areas, and could result in late night activities inconsistent with the character of the community. It is, therefore, the intent of this chapter to establish reasonable and uniform regulations to reduce public health risks, to prevent the close proximity of body art activities to incompatible uses and the concentration of body art activities in close proximity to each other, and to restrict the hours of operations for body art establishments as appropriate to maintain the existing residential and educational character of the community.

The terms and phrases used in this chapter shall have the same meaning as defined in Chapter 8.02 (City's Public Health Code).

No body art activity or use shall be established, undertaken, continued, maintained, enlarged or altered, and no body art establishment shall be constructed or moved into within the City of Claremont without first complying with all requirements of Claremont Municipal Code Chapter 8.02 (City's Public Health Code). All owners and operators of body art establishments and persons conducting body art shall obtain and maintain in compliance all permits required by the County of Los Angeles, Department of Public Health.

In addition to complying with the requirements of Municipal Code Chapter 8.02, body art activities, uses and establishments shall comply with all applicable development standards and regulations of this title, including, but not limited to, standards and regulations pertaining to business location, building setbacks, height and size, architectural review, parking, landscaping, and signs.

A body art establishment shall be open or operating for business only between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. on any particular day.

The following are exempt from the body art registration and permitting requirements of the County pursuant to County Health Code Section 11.36.470 and are not subject to the provisions of this chapter:

No temporary or mobile body art establishment or event is permitted within the City.