Taylorsville, UT Business Licensing & Operations: Tattoo & Body Modification (2026)

Section 13.08.020's Permitted Land Use Table governs the Commercial, Office, Industrial, Mixed Use, Transit Corridor and Research and Development Districts, and its row for 'Tattoo parlor' marks the use 'N' (Not Permitted) in the Regional Commercial, Boulevard Commercial, Community Commercial, Neighborhood Commercial, Limited Commercial, Professional Office, Mixed Use, Transit Corridor and Research and Development columns. Only the Industrial District (ID) column carries an entry, 'AC', meaning Administrative Conditional, the table's lighter discretionary tier. Under Taylorsville City Code § 13.03.020(F), the Community Development Director, not the Planning Commission, is authorized to review and decide administrative conditional uses, so a tattoo studio in the ID zone still needs the Director's sign-off before it can operate, on top of the standard business license every commercial establishment must obtain under Title 5 of the code.

The table treats a closely related use differently: 'Permanent makeup' is separately listed and is Permitted outright in the Regional, Boulevard, Community and Neighborhood Commercial, Limited Commercial and Mixed Use columns, so a cosmetic tattooing studio focused on permanent makeup has far more zoning options than a general tattoo parlor. Section 13.36.210 supplies the operative definition: a permanent design or mark made on the skin by pricking it and ingraining an indelible pigment, or by raising scars, performed at 'any business establishment which operates tattoo equipment to inject ink or otherwise modify human skin for the purposes of decoration.' Because the definition is written around the equipment and purpose rather than a licensed-trade label, body piercing or scarification services marketed as decorative skin modification fall under the same Industrial-District-only rule.