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

Section 5-4 governs the commercial portion of a U-PUD, Whitfield County's mixed-use overlay district capped at eight acres. After listing the retail, office, and service uses a U-PUD may include, the section runs through an explicit prohibited-use list, and 'Tattoo Parlors' is named on it, alongside pawn shops, liquor stores, night clubs, vaping and tobacco shops, and sexually-oriented adult uses. That means a tattoo or body-art business cannot locate in the commercial acreage of any U-PUD anywhere in unincorporated Whitfield County, regardless of size or design.

The county's general commercial use table elsewhere lists 'Tattoo Parlors; Body Art' as a use category tied to the wider zoning ordinance, but that table's export from the county's own code does not reliably tie each row's permission marks to a specific district column, so this page grounds the tattoo-parlor rule to the clearly readable U-PUD prohibition rather than guess at which other districts might allow it. Whitfield County's business-licensing and offenses chapters (Chapters 8 and 10) do not separately regulate tattoo or body-art establishments by name; Chapter 10's Article II addresses only adult entertainment establishments, a different category.