OAR 331-900-0100: Standard Body Piercing Practice Standards and Prohibitions

(1) Piercing is prohibited: (a) On a person younger than 18 years of age unless the requirements of OAR 331-900-0130 are met. (b) On the genital or nipple of a person younger than 18 years of age regardless of parental consent. (c) On a person's testes, deep shaft (corpus cavernosa), uvula, eyelids and sub-clavicle; horizontal tongue piercings also are prohibited; (d) On a person who shows signs of being inebriated or appears to be incapacitated by the use of alcohol or drugs; and (e) On a person with sunburn or other skin diseases or disorders of the skin such as open lesions, rashes, wounds, puncture marks in areas of treatment. (2) A standard body piercing licensee is prohibited from using an earlobe piercing gun unless a license for earlobe piercing is obtained. (3) The Office adopts the Association of Professional Piercers 2013 Procedure Manual by reference which must be used by licensees as a standard of care for body piercing best practices. The procedure manual can be located at http://www.safepiercing.org/publications/procedure-manual/