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File #: 2025-0809    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: Action
File created: 5/29/2025 In control: Board of Commissioners
On agenda: 6/24/2025 Final action:
Title: Commission District(s): All Commission Districts An Ordinance to Amend the Code of DeKalb County, Georgia, Chapter 13, Article XI, to replace the Current Body Craft and Tattoo Regulations with Ga. Comp. R. & Regs., Chapter 511-3-8, Subject 511-3-8.01 et seq., Regulating Body Art Promulgated by the Georgia Department of Public Health and for Other Purposes.
Attachments: 1. Substitute 2025 06.10 Item 2025-0809, 2. DPH Body Art Rules Regulations 511-3-8 (003)

SUBSTITUTE

Public Hearing:  YES      NO                                                   Department: Chief Executive Office                                     

 

SUBJECT:

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Commission District(s): All Commission Districts

An Ordinance to Amend the Code of DeKalb County, Georgia, Chapter 13, Article XI, to replace the Current Body Craft and Tattoo Regulations with Ga. Comp. R. & Regs., Chapter 511-3-8, Subject 511-3-8.01 et seq., Regulating Body Art Promulgated by the Georgia Department of Public Health and for Other Purposes.

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Information Contact: Zachary L. Williams, Executive Assistant/Chief Operating Officer

Phone Number: 404-371-2174

 

PURPOSE:

To consider amending Chapter 13 of Article XI of the Code of DeKalb County to adopt the attached ordinance replacing the existing DeKalb County Code regulating the body art industry, Sections 13-300 - 13-325, with the new statewide regulations, Ga. Comp. R. & Regs., Chapter 511-3-8, Subject 511-3-8.01 et seq. (“the Uniform Code”).

 

NEED/IMPACT:

DeKalb Public Health has reviewed the uniform code and requested that the Governing Authority rescind

the County’s current body art ordinance and replace it with the state-wide uniform code.

 

FISCAL IMPACT:

No fiscal impact

 

RECOMMENDATION:

Recommended Action

To approve the Ordinance amending the Code of DeKalb County, Georgia, Chapter 13, Article XI, to replace the Current Body Craft and Tattoo Regulations with Ga. Comp. R. & Regs., Chapter 511-3-8, Subject 511-3-8.01 et seq., Regulating Body Art Promulgated by the Georgia Department of Public Health and for Other Purposes.