OAR 331-905-0090: Specialty Body Piercing Practice Standards and Prohibitions

(1) Piercing is prohibited: (a) On the genital or nipple of a person younger than 18 regardless of parental consent; (b) On testes, deep shaft (corpus cavernosa), uvula, eyelids, and sub-clavicle; horizontal tongue piercings also are prohibited; (c) On a person who shows signs of being inebriated or appears to be incapacitated by the use of alcohol or drugs; (d) On a person with sunburn or other skin diseases or disorders of the skin such as open lesions, rashes, wounds, or puncture marks in areas of treatment (2) A specialty 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/