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<baltimore-city-law heading="Subtitle 2 – Licensing and Registration">
  <section prefix="§" num="13-201" heading="License required for tattoo establishments.">
    <text>No person may maintain, operate, or conduct a tattoo establishment in the City without a license to do so from the Commissioner of Health.</text>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 11, §216(a)(1st sen.)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-548</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="13-202" heading="Registration required for tattooists.">
    <text>No tattoo establishment may employ or otherwise allow any individual to act as a tattooist, and no individual may act as a tattooist, unless that individual has first registered with the Commissioner of Health.</text>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 11, §216(a)(1st sen.)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-548</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="13-203" heading="Applications for license.">
    <text>An application for a tattoo establishment license must:</text>
    <para num="(1)">be on the form that the Commissioner provides; and</para>
    <para num="(2)">contain the information that the Commissioner requires.</para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-548</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="13-204" heading="Issuance of license; fee.">
    <text>The Commissioner must issue a license to the applicant on receipt of:</text>
    <para num="(1)">a completed application; and</para>
    <para num="(2)">the annual license fee of $100.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 11, §216(a)(2nd sen.)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-548</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="13-205" heading="Term.">
    <text>Unless sooner revoked, a license issued under this title expires annually on the anniversary of its issuance.</text>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 11, §216(a)(2nd sen.)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-548</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
