🇺🇸State: South Dakota
Compliance for South Dakota Studios
Syyn covers South Dakota 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 (Body Art Practitioner License).
- SD: South Dakota Department of Health licenses body-art practitioners and premises under ARSD 44:12.
Sterilisation and Record-Keeping
- Sterilization records required.
- Retention period: 24 months.
- SD: South Dakota body-art rules require weekly commercial test-strip checks of each sterilizer, and sterilizer test records must be retained for at least 2 years. The statewide rule text reviewed uses weekly chemical test strips rather than a separate biological spore-test mandate.
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.
Information is operational guidance only and not legal advice.
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