Champaign, IL Business Licensing & Operations: Tattoo & Body Modification (2026)

Champaign regulates tattoo parlors not through its own licensing chapter but by wholesale adoption of an outside health authority's rules. 5, Article III of the Code of Ordinances, added by Council Bill No. 86-105 on May 20, 1986, consists of just two operative sections. 5-26 adopts by reference the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District Tattoo Parlor Regulations, meaning any studio operating inside city limits must meet whatever sanitation, equipment-sterilization, and recordkeeping standards CUPHD has set for tattoo establishments, rather than a standard written into the municipal code itself.

5-27 hands enforcement to the City's Health Officer, who applies CUPHD's own administrative rules "as amended from time to time," so the operative standard can change without the City Council passing a new ordinance. 5-17), also deferring to CUPHD rules and enforced by the same Health Officer, confirming Champaign treats both body-service businesses as a public-health licensing matter rather than a zoning or general business-license one. 5-25 are reserved, leaving no additional local text on fees, inspection frequency, or permit renewal; those specifics live in the CUPHD regulations themselves, not in the city code.