🇺🇸State: Oregon

Compliance for Oregon Studios

Syyn covers Oregon 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.

Licensing Requirements

  • Practitioner licence required (Tattoo Artist / Body Piercer License).
  • OR: Oregon HLO licenses practitioners and facilities under a statewide programme with education, examination, and sanitation requirements.

Sterilisation and Record-Keeping

  • Sterilization records required.
  • Retention period: 24 months.
  • OR: Oregon body-art standards require monthly biological spore testing of each sterilizer, and sterilizer records must be maintained 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

  • Oregon allows under-18 tattooing only via physician-authorized/prescribed pathway

Information is operational guidance only and not legal advice.

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