Of Other and Miscellaneous Offenses
Applied in 18 court decisions — leading case 38 Cal. 3d 301 - People v. Castro (1985)
Most recently applied in 237 Cal. App. 4th 1276 - Navarrete v. Meyer (June 2015)
Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1422.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Every person who tattoos or offers to tattoo a person under the age of 18 years is guilty of a misdemeanor.
As used in this section, to “tattoo” means to insert pigment under the surface of the skin of a human being, by pricking with a needle or otherwise, so as to produce an indelible mark or figure visible through the skin.
This section is not intended to apply to any act of a licensed practitioner of the healing arts performed in the course of his practice.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.