Rockdale County, GA Business Licensing & Operations: Tattoo & Body Modification (2026)

Rather than writing technical studio standards directly into chapter 22, section 22-111 folds in the Board of Health's separately adopted "Body Art Studios and Artists" rules and regulations wholesale, so anyone opening a studio in the unincorporated county must obtain and comply with that document from the county's Office of Environmental Health, which keeps copies on file and open to public inspection. This is a recent repurposing of the article: the prior Article IV of chapter 22, sections 22-111 through 22-140, once governed open yard storage businesses, but Ordinance No.

O-2006-32, section 6, adopted November 28, 2006, deleted that former article in its entirety. The county then reused the vacated article for body art with Ordinance No. O-2008-23, adopted December 23, 2008, about six weeks after the Board of Health finalized its body art rules. Because the operative technical requirements, such as sanitation, sterilization and recordkeeping standards for studios and individual artists, live in the Board of Health document rather than in the printed Code text, section 22-111 functions mainly as the county's enforcement hook tying that external rulebook to Code violations, while section 22-112 supplies the only sanction, letting the county charge a noncompliant "body artist" or "owner" under this article.