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

C. 70 contains a single operative section. The city sets no independent local health, inspection, artist-certification, or minimum-age standard of its own; instead it incorporates by reference whatever health and safety rules Solano County's public health department has adopted for tattoo establishments and parlors, so lawful operation inside Vallejo turns on maintaining county compliance. "Person" is defined broadly to include any individual, partnership, firm, association, corporation, or other legal entity, so a shop organized as an LLC or corporation is equally bound. 02, places "tattoo or body modification parlors" in the "Personal Services" use classification alongside barber shops, beauty salons, nail salons, tanning salons, and similar recurrently needed personal-service businesses.

That classification determines where a shop may locate and which permit track applies in a given zoning district. 70 sets no locally fixed fee schedule, inspection interval, or bloodborne-pathogen protocol, all of the substantive health and safety standards for a Vallejo tattoo shop come from the county, and an operator otherwise compliant with county rules has no separate city tattoo registration to complete beyond the standard citywide business license every Vallejo business must carry. The ordinance has not been substantively amended since 1978, so county rules, not the municipal code, are the part of this framework that changes over time.