Roseville, CA Business Licensing & Operations: Tattoo & Body Modification (2026)

Title 19's use-type classification chapter groups businesses by function rather than by name. 090(X) defines 'Personal services' to include establishments primarily engaged in the provision of personal improvement or appearance, and similar non-business related or non-professional services, but excludes services classified under other use types; the code lists typical uses as barber shops, beauty salons, tailors, shoe repair shops, massage therapist, tattoo studios, tutoring services, dry cleaning pick up stations, and permanent make-up/micro-blading establishments. Because tattoo studios share this single classification with a wide range of appearance and improvement businesses, they carry no separate development standards, hours, or spacing rules distinct from a barber shop or nail salon; whatever a district's use table allows for 'personal services' governs a tattoo studio the same way.

80. A body-art business operating outside a zone that permits personal services, or without the Conditional Use Permit a district requires for that use type, is out of compliance with Title 19 regardless of the specialty service offered.