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1995 - 1996 LEGISLATURE
ASSEMBLY AMENDMENT 2,
To 1995 ASSEMBLY BILL 733
February 1, 1996 - Offered by Representatives Wasserman and Brandemuehl.
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Section 2m. 252.24 of the statutes is created to read:
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8252.24 Regulation of body piercing and body-piercing establishments.
9(1) Definitions. In this section:
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(a) "Body piercer" means a person who performs body piercing on another.
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(b) "Body piercing" means perforating any human body part or human tissue,
12except an ear, and placing a foreign object in the perforation in order to prevent the
13perforation from closing.
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(c) "Body-piercing establishment" means the premises where a body piercer
15performs body piercing.
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1(2) Department; duty. The department shall provide uniform, statewide
2licensing and regulation of body piercers and uniform, statewide licensing and
3regulation of body-piercing establishments under this section. The department
4shall inspect a body-piercing establishment once before issuing a license for the
5body-piercing establishment under this section and may make additional
6inspections that the department determines are necessary.
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7(3) License required. Except as provided in sub. (5), no person may pierce the
8body of or attempt to pierce the body of another, designate or represent himself or
9herself as a body piercer or use or assume the title "body piercer" unless the person
10is licensed under this section.
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11(4) Rule making. The department shall promulgate all of the following as rules:
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(a) Standards and procedures, including fee payment to offset the cost of
13licensing body piercers and body-piercing establishments, for the annual issuance
14of licenses as body piercers or as body-piercing establishments to applicants under
15this section.
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(b) Standards for the performance of body piercing by a licensed body piercer
17and for the maintenance of a licensed body-piercing establishment, which will
18promote safe and adequate care and treatment for individuals who receive body
19piercing and eliminate or greatly reduce the danger of exposure by these individuals
20to communicable disease or infection.
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21(5) Exception. This section does not apply to a dentist who is licensed under
22s. 447.03 (1) or to a physician who pierces the body of or offers to pierce the body of
23a person in the course of the dentist's or physician's professional practice.".
