Port Orange, FL Business Licensing & Operations: Tattoo & Body Modification (2026)

Article X of the Port Orange City Code (§§ 18-271—18-277) adopts the Volusia County Health Department Body Art Code, dated November 1998 and attached to Ord. No. 1999-17, as the operative body art code for the City of Port Orange, Florida, with a copy on file at the city clerk's office. Section 18-271 makes clear the body art code applies on top of, not instead of, the rest of the Code of Ordinances and the Land Development Code, so a body art business still needs site development plan approval and a business tax receipt as circumstances require.

Section 18-272 designates the city manager or a designee as the 'hearing officer' for appeals and defines the 'permit officer' as whatever governmental agency the city designates by agreement, or a person the city manager designates, to administer and enforce the body art code. Section 18-273 requires permits and renewals to be applied for as the body art code specifies, and a denied application becomes final if not appealed. 3 of the body art code that suspends or revokes a permit; the order must specify the violation and set a compliance date at least five days out, and it automatically becomes final if the operator neither appeals nor complies by that date.

Section 18-275 gives an applicant ten days to appeal a permit denial and gives a permit holder five days to appeal a provisional order, both in writing to the city manager's office, with the hearing officer empowered to uphold, extend, modify or rescind the order. Section 18-276 sets notice by personal delivery, posting on the premises, or certified mail to the address on file.