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720 ILCS 5/12-10

Sec. 12-10. (Tattooing Body of Minor.) Any person, other than a person licensed to practice medicine in all its branches, who tattoos or offers to tattoo a person under the age of 21 is guilty of a Class C misdemeanor.

As used in this Section, to "tattoo" means to insert pigment under the surface of the skin of a human being, by pricking with a needle or otherwise, so as to produce an indelible mark or figure visible through the skin.

91_HB0360 LRB9101168RCks 1 AN ACT to amend the Criminal Code of 1961 by changing 2 Section 12-10. 3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 4 represented in the General Assembly: 5 Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by 6 changing Section 12-10 as follows: 7 (720 ILCS 5/12-10) (from Ch. 38, par. 12-10) 8 Sec. 12-10. Tattooing Body of Minor.) A Any person, other 9 than a person licensed to practice medicine in all its 10 branches, who tattoos or offers to tattoo a person under the 11 age of 21 is guilty of a Class C misdemeanor. 12 As used in this Section, to "tattoo" means to insert 13 pigment under the surface of the skin of a human being, by 14 pricking with a needle or otherwise, so as to produce an 15 indelible mark or figure visible through the skin. 16 (Source: P.A. 77-2638.)

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