(a) The commissioner shall promulgate emergency rules in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5, for the implementation and enforcement of this part. The rules shall include, at a minimum, all of the following:

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 62-38-308

  • Body piercing: includes ear piercing except when the ear piercing procedure is performed on the ear with an ear piercing gun. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
  • Body piercing establishment: means any place, whether temporary or permanent, stationary or mobile, wherever situated, where body piercing is performed, including any area under the control of the operator. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
  • Business: means any entity that provides body piercing services or procedures for compensation. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of health or the designee of the commissioner. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
  • Department: means the department of health. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
  • Disinfecting: means a process that kills or destroys nearly all disease-producing microorganisms, with the exception of bacterial spores. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
  • operator: means a person who controls, operates, conducts or manages a body piercing establishment, whether or not the operator is actually engaging in body piercing. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
  • Patron: means a person requesting and receiving body piercing services. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
  • Sterilization: means holding in an autoclave for fifteen (15) minutes at fifteen (15) pounds of pressure and at a temperature of two hundred and fifty degrees Fahrenheit (250°. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
  • technician: means a person at least eighteen (18) years of age who engages in the practice or service of body piercing, regardless of the type of body ornament utilized or the body area to be pierced. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
(1) Safety and sanitation standards and procedures to be followed to prevent the transmission of infectious diseases during the performance of body piercing procedures, including a requirement that the operator provide to each patron printed instructions on the care of the skin after body piercing and requiring a copy of the instructions to be posted in a conspicuous place in the body piercing establishment;
(2) Standards and procedures to be followed for appropriate disinfecting and sterilization of all invasive equipment or parts of equipment used in body piercing procedures; and
(3) Procedures for suspending and revoking licenses and permits pertaining to body piercing.
(b) The rules promulgated pursuant to this part shall establish universal blood and body fluid precautions to be used by any technician who performs body piercing procedures.
(c) The rules promulgated pursuant to this part may include standards and procedures to be followed by a business that offers body piercing services to ensure that the technicians who perform body piercing procedures for the business are adequately trained to perform the procedures properly.
(d) The rules promulgated pursuant to this part shall establish fees for issuing licenses and permits, as well as penalties for late payment. The fees shall be sufficient to cover one hundred percent (100%) of the department‘s cost of the program.
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