🇺🇸State: Colorado
Compliance for Colorado Studios
Syyn covers Colorado compliance requirements for tattoo and piercing studios, including state-specific age rules, licensing, and record-keeping.
Compliance Requirements
Age and Consent Rules
- Tattoo: consent allowed, written consent.
- Piercing: consent allowed, written consent.
- Intimate piercing: 18+ only.
Licensing Requirements
- Practitioner licence required (Local Body Art Practitioner Registration).
- CO: Colorado uses a local public-health licensing model under the 6 CCR body-art framework. Practitioner and facility approvals are issued on a local schedule.
Sterilisation and Record-Keeping
- Sterilization records required.
- Retention period: 24 months.
- CO: Colorado body-art rules require monthly biological spore testing of each sterilizer, and each spore-test record must be retained for at least 2 years.
Session Documentation
- Written aftercare documentation required.
- Federal overlays: OSHA bloodborne pathogen standards, FDA ink safety.
Key Legislation
- State body-art and health department legislation applies.
- Federal overlays: OSHA bloodborne pathogen, FDA tattoo ink safety, state privacy laws, TCPA/SMS obligations.
Unique Requirements
- Colorado body-art client records must be retained for at least 3 years under 6 CCR 1010-22 record rules
Information is operational guidance only and not legal advice.
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