🇺🇸State: New Hampshire
Compliance for New Hampshire Studios
Syyn covers New Hampshire compliance requirements for tattoo and piercing studios, including state-specific age rules, licensing, and record-keeping.
Compliance Requirements
Age and Consent Rules
- Tattoo: 18+ absolute, no parental consent pathway.
- Piercing: consent allowed, written_present_id.
- Intimate piercing: 18+ only.
- New Hampshire: Tattooing minors is prohibited. Minor body piercing requires parent/legal guardian physical presence, status verification, and signed declaration.
Licensing Requirements
- Practitioner licence required (Body Art Practitioner License).
- NH: New Hampshire OPLC licenses practitioners and establishments under RSA 314-A with supervised-practice and infection-control training requirements.
Sterilisation and Record-Keeping
- Sterilization records required.
- Retention period: 84 months.
- NH: New Hampshire body-art rules require monthly biological monitoring of sterilization equipment, and disinfection and sterilization monitoring records must be kept for at least 7 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
- Retain minor piercing parental consent/declaration records for at least 7 years
Information is operational guidance only and not legal advice.
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