Butte County Environmental Health’s (BCEH) Safe Body Art Program is responsible for enforcing the California Safe Body Art Act in order to protect both body art practitioners and clients from the transmission of infectious diseases. Facilities that perform body art such as tattooing, permanent cosmetics, body piercing, and branding are permitted and inspected by Environmental Health Specialists. In addition to permitting body art facilities, BCEH also registers all body art practitioners. BCEH has approximately 70 body art practitioners and 20 body art facilities.

Applications may be submitted via this email address: bcenvhealth@buttecounty.net 

Facility Information

Registration Instructions
Facility Permit Application
List of Permitted Safe Body Art Facilities

Community Events & Temporary Body Art Facilities

Body Art Event Sponsor Application

Temporary Body Art Facility Application

Facility Plan Check Information

Body Art Facility Plan Check Resource Guide
Body Art Facility Plan Check Application

Practitioner Information

Registration Instructions
Practitioner Registration Application
Hepatitis B Declination Form

Safe Body Art

Safe Body Art Act
Safe Body Art Guidelines
Body Art Facility Infection Prevention and Control Plan

Bloodborne Pathogen Training:

Biologix Solutions
Safe Tattoos
Safe Piercing
Cathy Montie
SPCP
The Body Art Training Group
Blood Borne Pathogen Prevention Training Institute of America